| Clinical Observation on Pediatric In-Patients Subjected for EEG. |
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Seung Kie Cheong, Hyung Ro Moon |
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Dept, of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University |
| 腦波檢査를 施行한 入院患兒에 對한 臨床的 考察 |
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鄭 勝 基, 文 洞 魯 |
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서울大學校 醫科大學 小兒科學敎室 |
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| Abstract |
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This study include hundred and thirty-seven pediatric in-patients in whom EEG was performed at National Medical Center, from January, 1977 to Decmber, 1981. Clinical records and EEG of all subjects were analyzed and the following results were obtained.
1) The proportion of patients subjected to EEG ranged from 2.3 to 3.1 % (2. 6%) of total in-patients during five years of period. 2) Boys to girls sex ratio for children subjected to EEG was 1.4 : 1.
3) The most common symptoms and signs requiring EEG were convulsion, 53 cases(38.7%) ；
iebrile convulsion, 28 cases(20.4%)headache, 14 cases(10.2%) ； comatose or drowsy consciousness,
1 leases(8.0%) and delayed development, 10 cases(7.3%).
4) Clinical entities in decreasing order of frequency subjected EEG were: idiopathic epilepsy, 49 cases (35.8%) ； acute extracranial infection, 31 cases(22.6%)； intracranial infection, 17 cases (12.4%); poisoning, 5 cases (3.6%)； metabolic disturbance, 4 cases (2.9%) ； cerebral palsy, 4 cases(2.9%).
5) Leading conditions which were required EEG in different age groups were: Febrile convulsion and meningitis for under one year of age; Febrile convulsion and idiojathic epilepsy for one to two years of age and two to six years of age; idiopathic epilepsy and meningitis for over twelve years of age.
6) Wave burst or slow wave was the most common abnormal finding in idiopathic epilepsy and other clinical entities of EEG studied, followed by irregular spike and wave, sharp wave, single spike respectively in order of frequency and nomal wave was 58 cases(43%) in EEG studied.
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| Key Words:
EEG studied, clinical observation. |
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