Dannaya rabota posvyashchena vazhnoy probleme detskoy nevrologii - diagnostiki opukholey golovnogo mozga u detey s debyutom ikh s epilepticheskikh pristupov. Aktual'nost' raboty obuslovlena chastotoy opukholey golovnogo mozga u detey - 450 novykh sluchaev registriruetsya ezhegodno v RF. Zadachey raboty yavlyaetsya sokrashchenie srokov postanovki diagnoza ot pervykh simptomov zabolevaniya, opredelenie optimal'noy dlya patsienta taktiki lecheniya simptomaticheskoy epilepticheskikh pristupov u etikh patsientov. Svoevremennaya postanovka diagnoza i vovremya nachatoe lechenie pozvolyat znachitel'no snizit' letal'nost' i invalidizatsiyu u etikh bol'nykh, uluchshit' kachestvo ikh zhizni. Do nastoyashchego vremeni period ot debyuta pervykh simptomov do postanovki okonchatel'nogo diagnoza u detey, kogda pervym i edinstvennym simptomom zabolevaniya yavlyayutsya epilepticheskie pristupy, izmeryalsya mesyatsami, a v otdel'nykh sluchayakh, godami. Issledovanie, posvyashchenno poisku kriteriev diagnostiki opukholey golovnogo mozga u detey i podrostkov s debyutom zabolevaniya s epilepticheskikh pristupov, a tak zhe podkhodov ratsional'noy protivoepilepticheskoy terapii.Vyyavleny zony povyshennogo riska zabolevaemosti opukholyami golovnogo mozga u detey v Belgorodskoy oblasti.