[Spontaneous intracerebellar haematoma in childhood (author's transl)].

Spontaneous cerebellar haemorrhage accounts for 10% of all intracranial spontaneous haematomas. It is a disease which principally affects patients over middle age, and it is rare in childhood. To twelve cases previously reported we now add a further three. Attention is drawn to the diagnostic difficulties and the values of echoencephalography, angiography, and computerized axial tomography in diagnosis and localisation of the condition. Prognosis can be good even in cases in poor condition of diagnosis and treatment are prompt.