Correlation of corpus callosal morphometry with cognitive and motor function in periventricular leukomalacia.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to describe complications related to ventricular catheter systems with subcutaneous reservoirs (VCSR) (such as Ommaya reservoirs) in pediatric patients with brain tumors. METHODS:Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients with a total of 31 VCSR treated at the Children's University Hospit...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gerber NU,Müller A,Bellut D,Bozinov O,Berger C,Grotzer MA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newborn with a rare type of lissencephaly is reported, characterized by extreme cerebral and cerebellar hypoplasia. The diagnosis was made by postmortem magnetic resonance imaging, indicating the value of such studies to evaluate neuronal migration disorders in patients in whom autopsy cannot be performed. Two earli...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kroon AA,Smit BJ,Barth PG,Hennekam RC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Birth records of 97 children assessed at 18 months and found to be developmentally delayed were scored according to the optimality concept developed by Prechtl. These children were compared to a control series of 81 children. In order to evaluate the predictive validity of the parental developmental assessments perfor...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sonnander K,Gustavson KH

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate whether modified constraint-induced movement therapy (mCIMT) following a botulinum type A toxin (BoNT-A) injection enhances the effects of the BoNT-A injection into the spastic upper limb of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS:A combined therapy with...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Park ES,Rha DW,Lee JD,Yoo JK,Chang WH

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has an important role in the diagnosis of metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD). We report diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) findings of four cases of juvenile type MLD. DWI showed restricted diffusion lines with greater areas of increased diffusion in three patients and widespread incre...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Oguz KK,Anlar B,Senbil N,Cila A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty patients suffering from neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, 33 of the juvenile type (JNCL) and 7 of the infantile type (INCL), underwent a brain CT. All INCL patients showed severe atrophic changes which were most pronounced supratentorially and in the brainstem. The white matter was hypodense and markedly reduced a...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Raininko R,Santavuori P,Heiskala H,Sainio K,Palo J

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease is a rare entity of which 10 cases have been reported in the literature. We report a case of biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease with similarities and differences compared to the previously reported cases by Ozand et al. Our case presented much earlier, was milder and respon...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： El-Hajj TI,Karam PE,Mikati MA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of ACTH on plastic synapses in the hippocampal gyrus of the developing mouse brain. Examination of ethanolic phosphotungustic acid stained synaptic junctions revealed no obvious differences between the ACTH-treated brains and controls qualitatively and quantitatively. Therefore, ACTH may not adve...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tateno A,Koya N,Aoki T,Nasu F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy characterized by demyelination and axonal damage. Biallelic functional polymorphisms in the immunoglobulin G Fc receptors (FcγR)-FcγRIIA: H131/R131, FcγRIIIA: V158/F158, and FcγRIIIB: NA1/NA2 affect the affinity of the IgG-FcγR interacti...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mansour LA,Girgis MY,Abdulhay M,ElEinein EI,ElHawary R,Hanna MO

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a family in whom three members suffered from congenital hydrocephalus and ocular abnormalities. One of these patients showed along with these symptoms congenital muscular dystrophy. In this child, autopsy disclosed severe cerebral malformations consisting of lissencephaly, arhinencephaly, stenosis o...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pavone L,Gullotta F,Grasso S,Vannucchi C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI mapping of language areas in children frequently employs a covert verb generation task. Because responses are not monitored, the relationship between fMRI activation and task performance is unknown. We compared fMRI activation during covert and overt verb generation to performance during the overt task....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vannest J,Rasmussen J,Eaton KP,Patel K,Schmithorst V,Karunanayaka P,Plante E,Byars A,Holland S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cerebrovascular changes are rarely discussed in patients with hemimegalencephaly. These alterations have previously been associated with epileptical activity. CASE:We report the case of a 36-week gestation neonate presenting with total right hemimegalencephaly, as demonstrated by a magnetic resonance imag...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wintermark P,Roulet-Perez E,Maeder-Ingvar M,Moessinger AC,Gudinchet F,Meuli R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galloway-Mowat syndrome (GMS) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder characterised by nephrotic syndrome, microcephaly, and variable brain anomalies. The prognosis is poor with death almost inevitably supervening before the age of 6 years, but atypical cases with later onset of proteinuria and a more protracted course...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Steiss JO,Gross S,Neubauer BA,Hahn A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Rett syndrome the autonomic nervous system is abnormal at various levels, from the central to the peripheral nervous system. A role for serotoninergic dysfunction has been suggested. OBJECTIVES:The aim of our study was to evaluate the relation between cardiac dysautonomia (expressed by means of heart rat...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Guideri F,Acampa M,Blardi P,de Lalla A,Zappella M,Hayek Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM1 and GM2 gangliosidoses are progressive neurodegenerative diseases which accumulate intralysosomal gangliosides--and to a lesser extent oligosaccharides--chiefly in the central and peripheral nervous system owing to deficiencies of beta-galactosidase and hexosaminidases A or/and B, respectively. This intralysosomal...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Goebel HH

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCL) represent a group of common progressive encephalopathies of children with a global incidence of 1 in 12,500. NCL are divided into three autosomal recessive subtypes, all assigned to different chromosomal loci. The infantile subtype of NCL (INCL) is characterized by early visual los...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hellsten E,Vesa J,Jalanko A,Peltonen L

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinico-radiologic correlations, using CT, were studied in 29 patients with ataxic cerebral palsy. The scans were normal or only slightly abnormal in 38%, posterior fossa abnormalities occurred in 28%, and 55% had obvious cerebral abnormalities which always involved the parietal lobes. There were only two cases where ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Miller G,Cala LA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidence of sudden death in Rett syndrome is greater than that of the general population and cardiac electrical instability is a prime suspect cause. Our study shows that girls with Rett syndrome had significantly lower heart rate variability (marker of autonomic disarray) and longer corrected QT intervals compared w...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Guideri F,Acampa M,Hayek G,Zappella M,Di Perri T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary degeneration of the granular layer of the cerebellum is an autosomal recessive disorder exhibiting characteristic clinical features: hypotonia, strabismus, delayed motor development, nonprogressive ataxia, delayed language development with dysarthria and mental retardation. We studied fourteen children, seven ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pascual-Castroviejo I,Gutierrez M,Morales C,Gonzalez-Mediero I,Martínez-Bermejo A,Pascual-Pascual SI

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a nine-year-old boy with the features of Leigh syndrome (LS) and a severe cytochrome-c oxidase (COX) deficiency with a single thymidine insertion at nucleotide position 5537 (T 5537i) in the tRNA Trp gene of mitochondrial DNA. During infancy the boy was irritable and hypotonus was noticed. Early motor develo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tulinius M,Moslemi AR,Darin N,Westerberg B,Wiklund LM,Holme E,Oldfors A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal seizures are the most prevalent and distinctive sign of neurologic dysfunction in early life and pose an immense challenge for clinicians. Improvements in neonatal care have increased the survival rate of extremely premature infants, considerably changing the spectrum of underlying etiologies, and instigating...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Ramantani G,Schmitt B,Plecko B,Pressler RM,Wohlrab G,Klebermass-Schrehof K,Hagmann C,Pisani F,Boylan GB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to suggest the rate of primary progressive (PP) subtype of pediatric onset multiple sclerosis (MS) in Isfahan, Iran, and describe its clinical and paraclinical features. The data of patients were retrieved from Isfahan MS Society (IMSS) database from April 2003 to August 2011. Among 3,843 M...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Etemadifar M,Afzali P,Tabrizi N,Hosseini SA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barbiturate anaesthesia is used in the treatment of status epilepticus and severe epilepsy of children. EEG is then used as a measure of the depth of anaesthesia, burst suppression being an easily identified EEG pattern. In this case report we describe epileptiform discharges during EEG suppression in two children und...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Jäntti V,Eriksson K,Hartikainen K,Baer GA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aims to evaluate the drawings effectiveness in childhood headache assessment. BACKGROUND:Headache is a common cause of pain in children. Although drawings have been used in childhood to recognize psychological insights and pain perception, they were rarely used for headache characterization. MET...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mazzotta S,Pavlidis E,Cordori C,Spagnoli C,Pini LA,Pisani F

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A forme fruste Rett variant female with partially preserved speech remnants is described. She was first seen by the author at an age of 4 years. She then presented with an unspecific syndrome of moderate mental retardation. At follow-up when aged 32 she had successively through the years developed a number of Rett cha...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hagberg B

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal ceroid-lipofuscinoses (NCL) are a group of inherited progressive encephalopathies. Striking histomorphological feature of the NCL is the accumulation of storage material within the lysosomes in neural and extraneural cells. The basic underlying defect causing the disease is not known. Presupposing a distu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kieseier BC,Wisniewski KE,Schuller-Levis G,Park E,Goebel HH

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a rare central disorder of hypersomnolence characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, hallucinations, and fragmented nocturnal sleep usually arising in adolescence or young adulthood. Recently, the childhood NT1 diagnoses have increased for improved disease aw...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rocca FL,Pizza F,Ricci E,Plazzi G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the complication of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in four patients with lower brainstem dysfunction. These patients suffered from perinatal asphyxia, cerebellar hemorrhage, or congenital dysphagia of unknown origin and showed facial nerve palsy, inspiratory stridor due to vocal cord paralysis, central sle...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Saito Y,Kawashima Y,Kondo A,Chikumaru Y,Matsui A,Nagata I,Ohno K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human neuroblastoma cell line, LA-N-1 was used as a target cell in a I131 radiolabeled staphylococcal protein-A (I131-SpA) binding assay, to characterize the pattern of antineuronal activity of human sera in fifty-four cases of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) including twenty-six patients with neuropsychiatric ma...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Danon YL,Garty BZ

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical features of cerebrovascular occlusive disease with the moyamoya network (group 1: twenty-nine children) and those without this network (group 2: nine children) are reported herein. Group 1 was characterized by female preponderance, recurrent and transient ischemic attacks, progression of mental deterioration,...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kurokawa T,Chen YJ,Tomita S,Kishikawa T,Kitamura K

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00