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.