| Description |
352 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Color handbook |
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Color handbook.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Congenital infection -- Lyme disease -- Cat-scratch disease -- Neurocysticercosis -- Cerebral malaria -- HIV/AIDS -- ch. 21 Movement disorders -- Introduction -- Stereotypy -- Tremor -- Tic disorders and Tourette syndrome -- Chorea -- Dystonia -- Myoclonus -- Hypokinetic movement disorders in childhood -- ch. 22 Seizures and other paroxysmal disorders -- Introduction -- Cardiac arrhythmia -- Nonepileptic events -- Seizures and epilepsy -- Specific seizure types and pediatric epilepsy syndromes -- Management of seizures -- Management of children with epilepsy -- ch. 23 Pediatric neurological emergencies -- Introduction -- Seizures -- Status epilepticus -- Alterations of consciousness -- Acute CNS injury -- Acute neuromuscular weakness -- Acute poisonings -- Hypertensive encephalopathy |
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Contents note continued: Disorders of cognition -- Learning disability -- Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and related conditions -- Organic brain disorders of childhood -- Conversion disorders -- ch. 9 Disorders of language and hearing -- Introduction -- Language disorders -- Epileptic causes -- Other causes -- Hearing disorders -- Conditions associated with hearing loss -- ch. 10 Disorders of head size and shape -- Introduction -- Macrocephaly -- Microcephaly -- Misshapen heads -- ch. 11 Disorders of cranial nerves -- Introduction -- Cranial nerve 1 (olfactory nerve) -- Cranial nerve 2 (optic nerve) -- Cranial nerve 3 (oculomotor nerve) -- Cranial nerve 4 (trochlear nerve) -- Cranial nerve 5 (trigeminal nerve) -- Cranial nerve 6 (abducens nerve) -- Cranial nerve 7 (facial nerve) -- Cranial nerve 8 (acoustic nerve) -- Cranial nerves 9 and 10 (glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves) -- Cranial nerve 11 (spinal accessory nerve) -- Cranial nerve 12 (hypoglossal nerve) -- |
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Contents note continued: Electronystagmography and balance testing -- Electroretinography -- ch. 4 Cerebrospinal fluid -- Introduction -- CSF production -- CSF pressure -- Lumbar puncture (spinal tap) -- CSF content -- Specialized diagnostic testing of CSF samples -- ch. 5 Genetic evaluation -- Introduction -- Human genetics: a primer -- Diagnostic tools -- Future directions -- ch. 6 Newborn screening and metabolic testing -- Newborn screening -- Abnormal results on a newborn screen -- Inborn errors of metabolism -- Inborn errors in newborns -- Laboratory screening -- Imaging -- Later clinical presentations -- SECTION 2 A PROBLEM-BASED APPROACH TO PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS -- ch. 7 Disorders of development -- Introduction -- Motor delay -- Global developmental delay -- Developmental regression -- Management of developmental delay -- ch. 8 Disorders of behavior and cognition -- Introduction -- Disorders of attention -- Neurobehavioral toxicity of antiepileptic drugs -- |
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Contents note continued: ch. 12 Disorders of peripheral nerves -- Introduction -- Neonatal brachial plexopathy -- Brachial plexopathy of children or adolescents -- Lumbosacral plexopathy -- Sacral neuropathy -- Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy -- Guillain---Barre syndrome -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Inherited peripheral neuropathy -- Critical illness polyneuropathy/myopathy -- Miscellaneous causes of peripheral neuropathy -- ch. 13 Disorders of gait and balance -- Introduction -- Evaluation -- Patterns of presentation -- ch. 14 Disorders of sleep -- Introduction -- Normal sleep of infants, children, and adolescents -- Common sleep disorders -- Parasomnias -- Neonatal sleep myoclonus -- Narcolepsy -- Delayed sleep-phase syndrome -- Advanced sleep-phase syndrome -- ch. 15 Disorders of the newborn -- Introduction -- Assessing the neonate -- Neuroimaging of the newborn -- EEG in the newborn -- EMG in the newborn -- Specific conditions -- |
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Contents note continued: ch. 16 Acute focal deficits -- Introduction -- Acute arm or leg weakness -- Acute facial weakness -- Acute visual loss -- Acute double vision (diplopia) -- ch. 17 The dysmorphic child -- Introduction -- The hypotonic infant -- The neonate with encephalopathy or seizures -- The child with seizures -- The child with language impairment -- The child with global developmental delay -- The child with deafness -- The child with a stroke -- The child with neurological signs or symptoms and birth marks -- The infant with a neural tube defect -- ch. 18 Headaches -- Introduction -- Migraine -- Migraine variants -- Chronic daily headaches -- Other headache syndromes -- ch. 19 Hypotonia and weakness -- Introduction -- The hypotonic infant -- Selected disorders in infants -- Weakness in children and adolescents -- Selected disorders in children and adolescents -- ch. 20 Infections of the nervous system -- Introduction -- Bacterial meningitis -- Viral meningitis -- |
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Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1 CORE CONCEPTS -- ch. 1 The pediatric neurological examination -- Introduction -- What is the lesion? -- Where is the lesion? -- Adaptation of the neurological examination to the child -- Mental status: examining the cortex -- Cranial nerves -- Coordination -- Sensory examination -- Motor examination -- Conclusions -- ch. 2 Neuroimaging -- Introduction -- Patient safety and preparation for imaging -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- Computed tomography (CT) -- Cranial ultrasound imaging -- Magnetoencephalography (MEG) -- Nuclear medicine brain imaging -- Catheter angiography -- ch. 3 Electrophysiological evaluation of Infants, children, and adolescents -- Introduction -- Electroencephalography -- Recognizable EEG abnormalities in children -- Video-EEG monitoring -- Brainstem auditory evoked potentials -- Visual evoked potentials -- Electromyography and nerve conduction studies -- Polysomnography -- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pediatric neurology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Bale, James F., Jr.
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| ISBN |
1840761342 (paperback) |
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9781840761344 (paperback) |
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