THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM OF CHILDREN WITH FOCAL CONVULSIVE SEIZURES

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Abstract
Convulsive attacks which are limited to one half of the body or to a single limb have always been of interest to neurologists, who hope in each case that a focal cortical lesion may be found to explain the occurrence of seizures and that removal of the lesion may effect a cure. In the majority of cases this hope is not realized, for all too often neither operation nor necropsy shows any evidence of an anatomic lesion. Operation is often useless in these cases. The purpose of this study was to determine, if possible, whether the electroencephalogram could clarify the clinical picture and make operative indications more certain. It was also designed to compare the results of the three methods of clinical investigation—the electroencephalographic, the pneumoencephalographic and the neurologic—to learn whether there is agreement between them and, if so, what such agreement might mean. MATERIAL AND METHOD The material consisted

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