Title:
Pediatric neurology : principles and practice / [edited by] Kenneth F. Swaiman.
Author:
Swaiman, Kenneth F., 1931-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
(cont) 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.
(cont) 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.
Publisher:
Mosby,
Publication Place:
St. Louis :
ISBN:
08016066953
0801666953
9780801666957
Subject:
Pediatric neurology.
Nervous System Diseases.
Child.
Infant.
Children Nervous system Diseases.
Edition:
2nd ed.
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.
(cont) 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.
(cont) 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.
Physical Description:
2 volumes (xxii, 1527, i-61 pages) : illustrations ;
Publication Date:
أ1994.
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