title: Acute childhood hemiplegia.
abstract: A 10-year-old child presented to the emergency department with a sudden onset of right hemiparesis and dysphasia. A thorough evaluation, including CT scan of the brain and cerebral angiography, resulted in a diagnosis of acute childhood hemiplegia. The diagnosis of acute childhood hemiplegia depends on characteristic cerebral angiographic findings. The treatment of this particular entity is supportive, often with incomplete recovery.
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans