Pediatric neurology : principles and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Swaiman, Kenneth F., 1931-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis : Mosby, [1994]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. Clinical evaluation
  • General aspects of the neurologic history
  • Neurologic examination of the older child
  • Neurologic examination after the newborn period until 2 years of age
  • Neurologic examination of the term infant
  • Neurologic examination of the preterm infant
  • Laboratory evaluation
  • Pediatric electroencephalography and evoked potentials
  • Spinal fluid examination
  • Disease characteristics and categories
  • Mental retardation
  • Intellectual and motor deterioration
  • Speech and language disorders
  • Sleep disorders in children
  • Impairment of consciousness
  • Increased intracranial pressure
  • Microcephaly, micrencephaly, megalocephaly and megalencephaly
  • Headache
  • Muscular tone
  • Gait impairment
  • Movement disorders
  • Cerebellar dysfunction and ataxia in childhood
  • Disorders of micturition and defecation
  • Ear, hearing and hearing loss
  • Vertigo
  • Oxidative metabolism disorders
  • Pediatric neurologic diseases
  • Principles of genetics
  • Chromosome-linked disorders
  • Congenital structural defects
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury in the newborn
  • Partial seizures (focal and multifocal)
  • Absence seizures
  • Nonabscence generalized seizures
  • Myoclonic seizures
  • Neonatal seizures
  • Febrile seizures
  • Nonepileptic paroxysmal disorders
  • Status epilepticus
  • Antiepileptic drug therapy in children
  • Bacterial meningitis of infants and children
  • Viral diseases of the nervous system
  • Fungal, rickettsial and parasitic diseases of the nervous system
  • Malnutrition
  • Vitamins
  • Electrolyte abnormalities and immature brain function
  • v. 2. Disorders of the hypothalamus and pituitary gland in adolescence and childhood
  • Cerebrovascular disease
  • Interrelationships between renal and neurologic diseases and therapies
  • Neurologic complications of vasculitic disorders of childhood
  • Migraine headaches
  • Visual loss associated with childhood neurologic disease
  • Tumors of the brain and spinal cord including leukemic involvement
  • Acute brain injury
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Determination of brain death in infants and children
  • Disorders primarily of white matter
  • Degenerative diseases primarily of gray matter
  • Neurocutaneous syndromes: phakomatoses and allied conditions
  • Disorders of the basal ganglia
  • Spinocerebellar degeneration
  • Disorders of the autonomic nervous system
  • Learning disabilities and attention disorders
  • Children with hearing impairment
  • Poisonings and drug-induced neurologic diseases
  • Neurologic complications of immunization
  • Aminoacidopathies and organic acidemias resulting from deficiency of enzyme activity
  • Diseases of ammonia metabolism and Reye syndrome
  • Diseases resulting from amino acid transport defects
  • Diseases associated with primary abnormalities in carbohydrate metabolism
  • Lysosomal diseases
  • Mitochondrial diseases
  • Peroxisomal disorders
  • Normal muscle
  • Anterior horn cell and cranial motor neuron disease
  • Peripheral neuropathies in children
  • Diseases of the neuromuscular junction
  • Progressive muscular dystrophies
  • Congenital and metabolic myopathies
  • Inflammatory myopathies