The Chronic non-progressive encephalopathy of the childhood (CNEC) the sequel is more neurological motor impairment for the child, and remains today a perinatal hypoxic-ischemia a major cause of brain injury. It is popularly known as Cerebral Palsy, being defined by a sequel of aggression brain, mainly characterized by a persistent disorder, but not invariable tone, posture and movement, which appears in early childhood. The characterization of this syndrome is done considering the anatomical, etiological, semiological and not evolutionary. In this study we adopted the classification based on anatomical and clinical aspects, emphasizing the symptom engine as the main component of the clinical picture. Neuroimaging has fundamental importance for the diagnosis and prognosis of brain lesions, performing the important function to discard or confirm the presence of lesions in newborns and children with developmental disabilities. Cerebral tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has played a huge role in the study of various tissues that make up the nervous system. Thus this study aimed to assess the neuropathological patterns in white
and gray matter, obtained by CT or MRI Skull, in patients with a history of perinatal hypoxicischemic CNEC, correlating the data obtained by neuroimaging with motor patterns obtained by clinical-neurological examination. Current regulations were obeyed to study in humans imposed by Resolution 196/96, submitted to the Ethics Committee and Research of Brazil Platform under Nº 112168. The study population consisted of patients aged zero to seven years, of both sexes, in the Cerebral Palsy ambulatory of Projeto Caminhar of Hospital Universitário Bettina Ferro de Souza (HUBFS), diagnosed with CNEC. The study sample consisted of 15 children diagnosed with CNEC by neonatal hypoxia. For the radiological diagnosis were used in neuroimaging data from reports of CT and MRI of skull. The clinical and neurological evaluation used to assess the movement's model range Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS E & R), developed by Palisano, which grades the child on five levels in which the Level I represents normality and Level V the largest severity of limitation. Of the 15 children assessed for movement and the relationship of the level by motricity GMFCS E & R, 05 children had level V, 04 children level IV, 05 children level III and 01 child level II. As for brain imaging performed 46% TAC and 54% RM Skull. MRI of skull presented in this study as the image of choice because of the 8 children who were examined, 6 had abnormal. It was evident that the imaging study of choice for the child who has Chronic non-progressive encephalopathy of the childhood is the RM of Skull and may be adopted as the protocol for the diagnostic conclusion, avoiding exposing the child to a high load of RX as in TAC, and also avoiding unnecessary spending on public health.
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