Hematogenous brain metastasis in children.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We describe the growth and nutritional status of children with cerebral palsy (2 to 18 years old) in West China and to explore the correlation between the nutritional status and age, gender, and gross and fine motor function. METHODS:We performed a cross-sectional survey of children registered as having cer...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wang F,Cai Q,Shi W,Jiang H,Li N,Ma D,Wang Q,Luo R,Mu D

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonuniform pathologic changes in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy were previously reported only in adult humans. We analyzed the pathologic features of 12 children, aged 2-17 years, with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Six patients manifested a preceding illness. Five patients prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Luan X,Zheng R,Chen B,Yuan Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign paroxysmal torticollis in infancy is characterized by periods of torticollic posturing of the head. The onset of the episodes usually occurs during the first month of life and may recur at varying intervals until the age of 1-5 years. This appears to be a self-limited disorder. The follow-up of 7 patients with ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cohen HA,Nussinovitch M,Ashkenasi A,Straussberg R,Kauschanksy A,Frydman M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three brothers, born to parents who were first cousins, were referred for progressive diffuse dystonia. Initial physical examinations revealed minor dysmorphic features, e.g., bifrontal narrowing, downslanting palpebral fissures, low-set ears, upturned nostrils, and microretrognathia, as well as neurodevelopmental del...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yosunkaya E,Karaca E,Basaran S,Seven M,Yüksel A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zonisamide is an antiepileptic drug developed and first marketed in Japan in 1989. Cases of oligohydrosis, characterized by deficient production and secretion of sweat, were reported in children treated with zonisamide in Japan during development and in the postmarketing period. Zonisamide was approved in the United S...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Knudsen JF,Thambi LR,Kapcala LP,Racoosin JA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial oxidation of a variety of substrates produces the bulk of energy requirements for most cell types. Impairment of oxidative metabolism may result in a broad spectrum of clinical signs and symptoms. A disorder of oxidative metabolism should be suspected when an unexplained association of signs and symptoms...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Breningstall GN

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant improvement in mortality rate, survivors of neonatal bacterial meningitis experience a significant incidence of neurodevelopmental sequelae. Neuropathologic studies have demonstrated vasculitis, arachnoiditis, and ventriculitis with secondary edema and encephalomalacia. Areas of cerebral infarction...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ment LR,Ehrenkranz RA,Duncan CC

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is well known that febrile seizures are commonly occur in children with exanthem subitum. In this study, we compared the clinical features and backgrounds of patients with complex febrile seizures with and without primary human herpesvirus 6B infection. METHODS:Sixty-two patients were enrolled after expe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Miyake M,Kawamura Y,Hattori F,Miura H,Ishihara N,Yoshikawa T

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes two patients, a father and son, with autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Although the father had the common phenotype, the son had a severe phenotype including early onset of weakness and fatal cardiomyopathy in childhood. Among the patients with severe phenotype of autosomal do...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Higuchi Y,Hongou M,Ozawa K,Kokawa H,Masaki M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recirculation after transient intrauterine ischemia has previously been found to be accompanied by secondary mitochondrial dysfunction in the immature rat brain. This study was performed to assess the efficacy of combined treatment with ascorbic acid and alpha-tocopherol in improving secondary brain damage. On the 17t...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nakai A,Shibazaki Y,Taniuchi Y,Oya A,Asakura H,Koshino T,Araki T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ATP1A3 mutations have now been recognized in infants and children presenting with a diverse group of neurological phenotypes, including Rapid-onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism (RDP), Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC), and most recently, Cerebellar ataxia, Areflexia, Pes cavus, Optic atrophy, and Sensorineu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sweney MT,Newcomb TM,Swoboda KJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of female Becker muscular dystrophy with 45,X/46,X,r(X), carrying an out-of-frame deletion in a nonhot-spot region of the DMD gene. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction did not detect the deletion, because the deleted exons 31-42 comprise a nonhot-spot region, and the product for exon 43 was detected...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lee KA,Han SH,Choi JR,Chung JS,Choi YC

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxcarbazepine, a carbamazepine analog, was approved for use as an antiepileptic agent in the United States in 2000. A search of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System identified nine cases of oxcarbazepine-associated angioedema in pediatric patients aged 16 years and younger. W...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Knudsen JF,Flowers CM,Kortepeter C,Awaad Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the clinical manifestations, genetic mutations, treatment responses to L-dopa, and long-term neurologic outcomes in Taiwanese infants with tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency. From 1999 to May 2011, we enrolled six infants who had been diagnosed with tyrosine hydroxylase deficiency by identifying point mutatio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chi CS,Lee HF,Tsai CR

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed potential etiologies of arterial ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke among children of Mainland China. From January 1996-June 2006, 251 patients with consecutive childhood stroke (aged 1 month through 16 years) were admitted to Beijing Children's Hospital. Arterial ischemic stroke accounted for ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wang JJ,Shi KL,Li JW,Jiang LQ,Caspi O,Fang F,Xiao J,Jing H,Zou LP

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the dose of ACTH and the initial effect was investigated in 41 children with infantile spasms. More than 0.015 mg (0.6 IU)/kg/day of ACTH was needed for a good initial response of seizures and electroencephalographic abnormalities. The relationship between the dose of ACTH and long-term progno...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito M,Okuno T,Fujii T,Mutoh K,Oguro K,Shiraishi H,Shirasaka Y,Mikawa H

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration is a central nervous system disorder secondary to several conditions related to hepatic dysfunction. Clinical features of acquired chronic hepatocerebral degeneration include a hyperkinetic extrapyramidal syndrome, neuropsychiatric symptoms, or both. We present for the firs...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Papapetropoulos S,Tzakis A,Sengun C,Reddy C,Boukas K,Zitser J,Singer C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the need for antiepileptic drugs after successful epilepsy surgery in pediatric patients, we retrospectively reviewed patients who had epilepsy surgery and were seizure free or had rare nondisabling auras during the first 6 postoperative months. Association between drug discontinuation and seizure recurren...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lachhwani DK,Loddenkemper T,Holland KD,Kotagal P,Mascha E,Bingaman W,Wyllie E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of the efficacy of seizure cessation by phenobarbital versus phenytoin administration utilized both clinical and electroencephalographic expressions of seizure behaviors. The phenomenon of uncoupling was defined as the persistence of electrographic seizures despite the suppression of >or=50% clinic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Scher MS,Alvin J,Gaus L,Minnigh B,Painter MJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute intermittent porphyria is an inherited disease that is rarely diagnosed in prepubertal children. It can affect the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous system. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is a clinicoradiological entity characterized by headache, seizures, altered consciousness, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zhao B,Wei Q,Wang Y,Chen Y,Shang H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcomes of 60 children unconscious for 90 days or longer following acquired brain injury are reported. Eight children who died had remained in persistent vegetative states. As expected, most neurologic improvement occurred within the first year after injury, although some delayed improvements were observed. Outco...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kriel RL,Krach LE,Jones-Saete C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moyamoya disease is an uncommon chronic cerebrovasculopathy, characterized by progressive stenosis of the terminal portion of the internal carotid artery and its main branches, in association with the development of compensatory collateral vessels at the base of the brain. The etiology is unknown, and was originally c...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Currie S,Raghavan A,Batty R,Connolly DJ,Griffiths PD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pediatric critical care survivors often suffer persisting multisystem health problems and are left with treatment needs that go unmet due to limits in current care models. We proposed that integration of neuropsychology into neurocritical care follow-up provides incremental benefit to the identification and ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Dodd JN,Hall TA,Guilliams K,Guerriero RM,Wagner A,Malone S,Williams CN,Hartman ME,Piantino J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a 13-year-old female with refractory frontal lobe epilepsy in whom diffusion tensor imaging was useful for exploring subtle cortical malformation. She had frequent simple partial seizures characterized by clonic movement of the right upper extremity. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging was not conclusive...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Okumura A,Fukatsu H,Kato K,Ikuta T,Watanabe K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peroxisomal disorders are classified in two major groups: (1) peroxisome biogenesis disorders and (2) single peroxisomal enzyme/transporter deficiencies. D-bifunctional protein deficiency (OMIM #261515) is included in this last group of rare diseases and leads to an impaired peroxisomal beta-oxidation. D-bif...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nascimento J,Mota C,Lacerda L,Pacheco S,Chorão R,Martins E,Garrido C

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ring chromosome 20 is a genetic disorder characterized by intractable epilepsy, behavioral problems, and cognitive deficit. The potassium channel-coding gene KCNQ2 is localized at the locus q13.3 on the chromosome 20, the most common site where the ring occurs. Ezogabine is the first potassium channel opener...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Walleigh DJ,Legido A,Valencia I

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignant melanoma of the meninges is described in a 5-year-old boy who presented with a 3-month history suggestive of subacute meningitis. Clinically the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis was made and antituberculous treatment was begun. Despite this treatment, the patient's condition continued to deteriora...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nicolaides P,Newton RW,Kelsey A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autopsy studies in Rasmussen encephalitis reveal areas of sparing within the affected hemisphere. Clinical progression and inflammation are milder with an older onset. We sought to demonstrate radiological corroboration for these patterns. METHODS:In our retrospective study, 38 cases were dichotomized into ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Benjamin RN,Thomas M,Muthusamy K,Yoganathan S,Mathew V,Chacko AG,Prabhu K,Chacko G

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our knowledge of mitochondrial respiratory chain diseases has increased dramatically in recent years, but relatively little information is available about their prevalence and incidence, either in pediatric or adult patients. This study reports incidence and prevalence estimates, and summarizes the clinical, biochemic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Castro-Gago M,Blanco-Barca MO,Campos-González Y,Arenas-Barbero J,Pintos-Martínez E,Eirís-Puñal J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In this study, we aimed to determine the serum, urine, and saliva levels of acyl ghrelin, des-acyl ghrelin, and obestatin in the newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized pediatric epilepsy patients in the pretreatment period and in the third month of valproic acid. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Thirty pre- and post-...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Taskin E,Atli B,Kiliç M,Sari Y,Aydin S

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00