[Neuropediatrics: epidemiological features and etiologies at the Dakar neurology service]

Dakar Med. 1999;44(2):162-5.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Child neurology is a relatively young speciality of neurosciences which is at the frontier of Neurology and Paediatrics. Its development has been impulsed by the diagnosis techniques such as Neurobiology, Genetics, Neuroimaging and pedo-psychology. We conducted a retrospective survey among the in-patients from January 1980 to December 1997 in the service of Neurology of the University Hospital. Have been included children ranged from 0 to 15 years old without any racial, sexual or origin distinctive. In Neurology Department, children of 0 to 15 years old represent 10.06% of the in-patients received from 1980 to 1997. The mortality rate was 9.23%. The diseases are dominated by epilepsy and infantile encephalopathies with 31.02%, infectious diseases with 19.36% represented by tuberculosis, other bacterial, viral and parasitical etiologies, tumors with 10.36%, vascular pathology and degenerative disorders.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Brain Neoplasms / epidemiology
  • Cerebrovascular Disorders / epidemiology
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Epilepsy / epidemiology
  • Female
  • Hospital Departments / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infections / epidemiology
  • Inpatients
  • Male
  • Nervous System Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Nervous System Diseases / etiology
  • Nervous System Diseases / mortality
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases / epidemiology
  • Neurology*
  • Neuromuscular Diseases / epidemiology
  • Pediatrics*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Senegal / epidemiology