All issues > Volume 26(9); 1983

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1983;26(9):891-898. Published online September 30, 1983.

Clinical Observation on Pediatric In-Patients Subjected for EEG.

Seung Kie Cheong¹, Hyung Ro Moon¹

¹Dept, of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Seoul National University

Abstract

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.

Keywords :EEG studied; clinical observation.