Pediatric neurology : principles and practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis :
Mosby,
[1994]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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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