[Reaction of short-latency brain stem evoked potentials to acoustic stimulation and electroencephalography in post-traumatic epilepsy].

Multilevel CNS involvement in closed craniocerebral trauma was manifested by epileptic focus formation and development of posttraumatic epilepsy in roughly 10 to 30% of the cases. The issue of neurophysiological investigation of the late period of posttraumatic epilepsy is far from being well discussed in the literature. The authors revealed the changes of short-latency brainstem evoked potentials to acoustic stimuli in the late period of posttraumatic epilepsy, which are of major diagnostic importance especially in the cases without EEG pathology.