Selective Control Assessment of the Lower Extremity (SCALE): development, validation, and interrater reliability of a clinical tool for patients with cerebral palsy.

abstract：:Three cases with sensory peripheral neuropathies are reported. Case 1 presented with scoliosis, and cases 2 and 3 presented with abnormal gait. None had trophic limb changes, evidence of weakness, or a tendency to self-mutilation and each had normal motor studies on neurophysiological testing. Sural nerve biopsies sho...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Bye AM,Baker WD,Pollard J,Wise G

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the cumulative efficacy (three treatment sessions) of botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) alone, casting alone, and the combination of BTX-A and casting in the management of dynamic equinus in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP). Thirty-nine children with spastic CP (mea...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ackman JD,Russman BS,Thomas SS,Buckon CE,Sussman MD,Masso P,Sanders J,D'Astous J,Aiona MD,Shriners Hospitals BTX-A Study Group.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of statistics in medical diagnoses and biomedical research may affect whether an individual may live or die, whether their health is protected or jeopardized. Because society depends on sound statistical practice, all practitioners of statistics, whatever their training or occupation, have social obligations t...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rigby AS

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim To determine the levels of anxiety and depression in young people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and their associated factors and outcomes. Method Children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years at interview who had sustained SCI at least 1 year before the study were assessed using the Children's Depression Inventory...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson CJ,Kelly EH,Klaas SJ,Russell H,Daharsh E,Vogel LC

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a modified version of constraint-induced (CI) movement therapy on bimanual hand-use in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP; age range 18 mo to 4 y) and to make a comparison with conventional paediatric treatment. Twenty-one children (13 females, eight males)...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Eliasson AC,Krumlinde-sundholm L,Shaw K,Wang C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review examines the effects of casting, either alone or in combination with botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A), on equinus in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Comparisons are made between casting alone and no treatment, between casting alone and BTX-A alone, between combined casting and BTX-A and each tr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Blackmore AM,Boettcher-Hunt E,Jordan M,Chan MD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the observation that many children with kwashiorkor had a deprived look in their eyes, the guardians of 107 children with kwashiorkor and 111 controls were interviewed about their home life, in a survey made at New Mulago Hospital, Kampala, between 1969 and 1972. A child's age, sex and tribe were found to ha...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Goodall J

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using prospectively collected data from 13971 births enrolled in a large population-based cohort study (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC), the prevalence of feeding difficulties at 4 weeks and 6 months of age in 33 children subsequently diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP) were investigated. It wa...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Motion S,Northstone K,Emond A,Stucke S,Golding J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgery for spinal fusion for patients with myelomeningocele is accompanied by a high rate of complications. The authors report six cases of sudden intra-operative hemodynamic instability which occurred during anterior spinal fusion; the procedures had to be aborted. All children were successfully resuscitated and fou...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Karol LA,Richards BS,Prejean E,Safavi F

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of the study was to explore the ability of a brief developmental assessment to predict teacher-rated learning and attentional and behavioural skills in the first grade of school at both the group and individual levels. A sample of 394 children (181 males, 213 females) aged 4 years were followed to the age...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Valtonen R,Ahonen T,Tolvanen A,Lyytinen P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To simultaneously evaluate long-term outcomes of children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) across multiple cognitive domains and compare the characteristics of participants sharing a similar cognitive profile. METHOD:Participants were adolescents and young adults (AYAs) diagnosed with DRE in childhood, who compl...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Puka K,Smith ML

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our aim was to contribute new findings related to the pre-regressional verbal development of females with a variant of Rett syndrome (RTT) as the loss of spoken language is one of the key clinical features of RTT, and it would be of particular interest to study the early speech-language development of females who a...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Marschik PB,Pini G,Bartl-Pokorny KD,Duckworth M,Gugatschka M,Vollmann R,Zappella M,Einspieler C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Osteoporosis is a significant clinical problem in persons with moderate to severe cerebral palsy (CP), causing fractures with minimal trauma. Over the past decade, most studies examining osteoporosis and CP have been cross-sectional in nature, focused exclusively on children and adolescents and only involving one e...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Grossberg R,Blackford MG,Kecskemethy HH,Henderson R,Reed MD

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess outcome for children with severe neurological impairment receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure. METHOD:Medical charts for all such children treated in our intensive care unit (ICU) between January 2003 and July 2008 were reviewed. Outcomes were compared with those for children...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： van Gestel JP,Robroch AH,Bollen CW,Van Der Ent CK,Van Vught AJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were recorded from 48 children with language disorders (aged four to nine years old, IQs normal to borderline, normal audiometric thresholds and attending special school) and 20 healthy children (four to eight years old, with normal IQs, audiometry and school-level). The la...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Roncagliolo M,Benítez J,Pérez M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effectiveness of soft splints made from polyurethane foam in reducing severe knee-flexion contractures of patients with cerebral palsy. The splints were applied nightly over a period of 10 months. Knee-flexion contractures were reduced by an average of 24 degrees in all patients. Younger patie...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Anderson JP,Snow B,Dorey FJ,Kabo JM

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new cases are reported of a rare syndrome of malformation consisting of occiptal encephalocele, aplasia of the vermis and deformity of the tectum. Less consistent components are aplasia of mammillary bodies, fusion of thalami, anomalies of cerebral gyral patterns, bifid atlas or bifid occipital squame, elevation o...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Friede RL

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anencephalic infants born to women who are very prone to bear them do not have a sex ratio appreciably different from that of other anencephalic births. Moreover, the sexes of affected cases in sibships containing exactly two anencephalic births seem to be distributed approximately binomially. Bearing in mind the corr...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： James WH

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In summary, the GMFCS has had, and continues to have, a major effect on the health care of children with CP. The number of citations of the GMFCS has been increasing every year, and the classification system has had good uptake internationally and across the spectrum of health professionals for use in research design ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Morris C,Bartlett D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper reports the second of two studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Kinaesthetic Training Programme (Laszlo and Bairstow, 1985) for children with movement difficulties. Three groups of 12 children were matched on age, IQ and sex as well as degree of kinaesthetic and motor impairment. One group re...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Sims K,Henderson SE,Morton J,Hulme C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal predictors of microcephaly, defined as a head circumference <5th centile in children born preterm, has not been systematically assessed. Children were drawn from the Developmental Epidemiology Network (DEN) cohort of very low-birthweight children (VLBW: 500-1500g) born from 1991 to 1993 at three sites in ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Chiriboga CA,Kuban KC,Durkin M,Hinton V,Kuhn L,Sanocka U,Bellinger D

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory and motor function were evaluated in 84 children and adolescents with epilepsy but not additional neuroimpairments such as mental retardation or cerebral palsy. The influence of sex, age, age at onset of epilepsy, duration, seizure type and frequency and medication was analysed. The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Beckung E,Uvebrant P

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A child with lobar holoprosencephaly presented with spastic diplegia and mild mental retardation, compounded by attention deficits and hyperactivity. His facial features were normal, and except for borderline microcephaly, there were no other predictors of holoprosencephaly. This patient represents the mild end of the...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Shanks DE,Wilson WG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of repeated botulinum toxin A (BTX-A) injections in two and three dose regimes, together with occupational therapy, on upper limb movement and function, was studied using an evaluator blinded, randomized, controlled two-group trial. Forty-two children (31 males, 11 females; range 2-8 y, mean 4 y [SD 1 y 7...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Lowe K,Novak I,Cusick A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate construct and predictive validity of the Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) for use with preschool children with a range of speech and language disorders. METHOD:Seventy-seven preschool children with speech and language disorders (50 males, 27 females; mean 2y 7mo, standard deviation [...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Hidecker MJ,Cunningham BJ,Thomas-Stonell N,Oddson B,Rosenbaum P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The headache histories obtained from 214 children were analysed by computer to see whether it was possible to identify and classify migraine, and to distinguish children with psychogenic headache. During headache attacks, most children had no or very few associated symptoms. For classification, 175 patients were divid...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Rossi LN,Cortinovis I,Bellettini G,Brunelli G,Bossi A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modified Gubbay tests, assessing various aspects of motor performance, were administered to 885 Manchester children in mainstream primary education, and centile tables were drawn up by age. Children who had performed badly on one of the four tests were retested two years later, when they were found to have 'caught up'...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Ehrhardt P,McKinlay IA,Bradley G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical phenotype in Lesch-Nyhan disease has been analyzed in 19 patients studied in hospital. In each case the diagnosis was made on the basis of inactivity of the enzyme hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase in erythrocyte lysates. All had hyperuricemia, and the presence of 'orange sand' in the diaper ...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Christie R,Bay C,Kaufman IA,Bakay B,Borden M,Nyhan WL

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty children who had recovered from purulent meningitis one to six years earlier were investigated for long-term impairment of brain and auditory function, using brainstem auditory evoked potentials(BAEP) and developmental screening tests. Neurological and/or audiological BAEP abnormalities were found in 23 per cent...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jiang ZD,Liu XY,Wu YY,Zheng MS,Liu HC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The onset and development of the jaw-reflex responses were studied of 54 neonates and children in up to 15 years of age. Recordings were made with standard EMG equipment. The reflex response was constantly elicited in all but one child of 35 weeks postconceptional age. The latency times showed negative linear correlat...

journal_title：Developmental medicine and child neurology

authors： Jääskeläinen SK

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00