All issues > Volume 32(3); 1989

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1989;32(3):375-380. Published online March 31, 1989.

Significance of Brain CT in Children with Seizure.

Soon Ock Kang¹, Hyang Sook Hyun¹, Jee Sung Kim¹, Im Ju Kang¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Fatima Hospital, Taegu, Korea

Received: July 22, 1988;  Accepted: September 22, 1988.

Abstract

For review of diagnostic utility and significance of brain CT in children with seizure, we analysed history, EEG, neurological examination and brain CT of 130 children who had vistied our hospital from January 1984 to June 1987. The results were as follows; In this series, the frequency of abnormal brain CT was 37.7% and it’s finding kept in order of atrophy, hydrocephalus, tumor, adnormal calcification, abnormal low density, etc. The higher frequency of brain CT abnormalities was shown in cases of the younger age, simple partial sezures (53.8%), focal abnormal EEGs (57.1 %) or focal neurological abnormalities (72.2%). And cases that these focal features were compounded showed higher frequency of abnormal findings. Brain CT helps to diagnose, treat, prognosticate such cases of younger age or focal features in seizure type, EEG, neurological examinations.

Keywords :Brain CT, Seizure Disorder