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AAP Grand Rounds 8:63-64 (2002)
© 2002 American Academy of Pediatrics

The Natural History of Cerebral Palsy

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Cerebral palsy is a nonspecific term for a variety of conditions characterized by motoric disability due to static encephalopathy originating during fetal development, the perinatal period, or early infancy. Because the term encompasses a broad spectrum of disability, the diagnosis is the occasion for wide-ranging parental anxiety, and pediatricians need rules for reliable prognostication. Simply describing the neurological abnormalities and functional deficits of a child with cerebral palsy at one point in time is remarkably difficult. There is, for example, a great deal of interobserver variability in the use of such familiar terms as "diplegia," "quadriplegia," and "hemiplegia."¹ Describing the status of a child at future points in time in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph H. Piatt, Jr, MD, FAAP

Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA