[Spastic torticollis in children (the problems of the clinical picture, treatment and nosological specificity)].

Twenty-two cases with spastic torticollis in children are analyzed. This syndrome was the only suffering in ten children and was a component of generalized forms of deforming muscular dystonia in twelve. In such cases the time course of spastic torticollis clinical picture, possible alteration of tonic and clinical forms, involvement as a rule of hands and shoulders muscles permit regarding this condition as a variant of local deforming muscular dystonia and not an individual hyperkinesis. The efficacy of routine drug therapy administered to these patients directly depended on the form and pattern of spastic torticollis. Positive shifts were observed in 90.9% of patients, in 40.9% a marked positive effect was attained.