[The neuroradiological aspects of infantile spasms]

The observation of 38 children with early form of children epilepsy that is with syndrome of infantile spasms (IS) was performed by means of computed tomography of the brain. The structural alterations of the brain were revealed in 89.5% of cases. They varied from rough developmental anomalies and pronounced destructive phenomena to microdysgenesias and moderate cortical atrophies. These changes were systematized according to the time of the beginning of some alteration on the definite stage of neuro-ontogenesis. There were embryofetal disturbances (23.6%), peri- and postnatal alterations (50%) and combined ones (15.7%). The definite correlation was established between neuroradiological damages, clinical pattern of IS, differentiated policy of the treatment and the prognosis of neuropsychic development of a child.