[Epidemiology of childhood cerebral palsy in Slovakia].

In the 5.3 million population of Slovakia the author investigated by means of questionnaire screening the prevalence and incidence of cerebral palsy in children. The questionnaires were processed in collaboration with child neurologists and district paediatricians from all 38 Slovak districts. The author revealed that in 1990 child neurologists recorded 6,214 1-14-year-old children with the diagnosis of cerebral palsy, i.e. the motor form. The prevalence of cerebral palsy in children in Slovakia is 4.9 and the incidence 9.0. The assembled data are valuable in the system of comprehensive care of children with cerebral palsy, for establishment of an early diagnosis and early rehabilitation treatment.