title: [Refractive errors in patients with cerebral palsy].
abstract: Ocular changes are common in patients with cerebral palsy (CP) and they exist in about 50% of cases. The most common are refractive errors and strabismus disease. The aim of the paper was to estimate the relativeness between refractive errors and neurological pathologies in patients with selected types of CP. MATERIAL AND METHODS. The subject of the analysis was showing refractive errors in patients within two groups of CP: diplegia spastica and tetraparesis, with nervous system pathologies taken into account. Results. This study was proven some correlations between refractive errors and type of CP and severity of the CP classified in GMFCS scale.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Refractive errors were more common in patients with tetraparesis than with diplegia spastica. In the group with diplegia spastica more common were myopia and astigmatism, however in tetraparesis - hyperopia.
authors.affiliation: Uniwersytet Medyczny w Bialymstoku, Klinika Okulistyki Dzieciqcej.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mrugacz
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bandzul
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kułak
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Poppe
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jurowski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index