[Clinical picture and diagnosis of epileptic seizures in early childhood].

Results of clinico-anamnestic examinations of 171 patients with epileptic seizures are presented. Etiologically significant were unfavourable factors in the antenatal period, natal traumas, infections, neuroinfections, and craniocerebral postnatal injuries, combinations of the above factors, and intracranial newgrowths. In the first three years of life, generalized seizures were prevailing. The use of additional, especially roentgeno-contrast examinations was of a substantial aid in the diagnosis. Approaches to epilepsy prophylaxis in the patients examined have been outlined.