title: [Cerebral palsy in Dakar].
abstract: The objective of the study was to describe risks factors of cerebral palsy and to determine clinical forms. From November 1998 to July 2000,we conducted a prospective study to select outpatients showing cerebral palsy symptoms: so 93 children with age between 5 months and 11 years old entered on this study. For 44.08% cerebral palsy was related on pregnancy abnormalities, 32.26% have central nervous system infection and 8.6% have convulsions unknown cause . The cause of cerebral palsy was untraceable in 13.98% of the cases. 82.8% of the children have cerebral palsy associated with other handicaps. The commonest type of cerebral palsy was spastic forms (74.2%) followed by hypotonic cerebral palsy (16.13%), dystoniaathetosis and ataxic forms in 5.37% and 4.3% of the cases respectively. The overall prevalence of epilepsy was 46.23%. The other handicaps were neurosensoriel abnormalities (visual impairment, deafness), speech disorders and behavioural problems. Computerised tomography (CT), performed in 45 cases showed cortical/subcortical atrophy as the commonest brain lesions. The electroencephalographic abnormalities were identified frequently.
authors.affiliation: Serice de Neurologie-CHU Fann Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thiam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bagnou
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Ndao
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sene-Diouf
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diagne
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ba
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
mesh_terms: D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012675:Senegal; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires