[Disability in epileptics - a situation analysis in the district of Dresden].

The expertise and treatment documents of 173 invalid epileptics of the period from 1967 to 1977 have been analysed according to a catalogue of 117 characteristics. Furthermore, a catamnestic questioning has been carried out in 70 cases involving unclear facts. The analysis concerned in the main the social structure, treatment and appraisement centres, mode of treatment, reasons for the declaration of invalidity, classification of epilepsy, psychic findings and rehabilitation proposals. Suggestions for the improvement of both the treatment situation and the expertise situation are derived from the results obtained.