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A comparison of spastic diplegic and tetraplegic cerebral palsy.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Kułak, Wojciech Sobaniec, Wojciech Śmigielska-Kuzia, Joanna Kubas, Bożena Walecki, Jerzy |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | The aim of this study was to compare spastic diplegic and tetraplegic cerebral palsy. Thirty-eight children had spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and 48 spastic tetraplegic cerebral palsy. Risk factors of cerebral palsy, seizures, severity of cerebral palsy, electroencephalogram, and magnetic resonance imaging findings were analyzed. Gestational history, low birth weight, and perinatal pathologies were present in similar percentages in both groups. Lower values of the Apgar score were recorded more often in the tetraplegic cerebral palsy group than the diplegic group. The children with spastic diplegia were classified more frequently into levels I and II of the Gross Motor Function Classification System, but patients with spastic tetraplegia were classified more frequently into levels IV and V. Similarly, mental retardation was observed more frequently in the patients with spastic tetraplegia. In magnetic resonance imaging, periventricular leukomalacia was detected in a higher proportion of children with spastic diplegia than in patients with tetraplegia. Cerebral atrophy occurred more frequently in the tetraplegic group compared with diplegic patients. Twenty-four (50.0%) children with spastic tetraplegia had epilepsy compared with six children with spastic diplegia. The incidence of intractable epilepsy was higher in the tetraplegic patients than in the children with spastic diplegia. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.01.006 |
| PubMed reference number | 15866431 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 32 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.girardslaw.com/library/2_types_of_cerebral_palsy.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2005.01.006 |
| Journal | Pediatric neurology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
