The association between developmental handicaps and traumatic brain injury during pregnancy: an issue that deserves more systematic evaluation.

Aims: Trauma during pregnancy is commonly viewed as benign for the foetus when the delivery occurs normally. This study revisits that point of view.

Method: We included eighteen patients having a neurological handicap with an anamnesis of an accident during pregnancy and a follow-up sufficient to determine a definite outcome.

[Recent progress in pediatric neurological rehabilitation].

New challenges in rehabilitation for children with neurological diseases directly depend on advances made in medical research and on the quality of the environment. This is relevant to motor function as a whole, to new therapeutic avenues in spasticity, to global approaches in the evaluation of cognitive and learning disabilities, as well as curative perspectives in neuromuscular disease. Networking with the family and other actors in the environmental field is essential to achieve a better social integration.

[Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome in a child caused by a head trauma].

We report the case of a traumatic Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome (SFMC) which is the cortico-subcortical type of suprabulbar palsy. A 10-year-old boy was brain injured in a traffic accident in August 1996. He was found comatous (initial GCS = 6) without any focal neurological deficit.