Abstract
Posttraumatic epilepsy can be characterized as a variant of the consequences of craniocerebral trauma (CMT) with a leading epileptic syndrome, which is manifested, respectively, by systematically repeated epileptic seizures, most often of convulsive nature.The leading etiological factor of symptomatic epilepsy of young age is craniocerebral trauma, which takes 30-50% of all types of injuries in peace time. The incidence of post-traumatic epilepsy in cases of previously suffered traumatic brain injury ranges from 5 to 50%, according to numerous studies, and its course is often progredient. The problem of diagnosis and drug treatment of posttraumatic epilepsy remains one of the most difficult tasks of clinical neurology [1,3,5].
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