Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2: novel mutations in six patients with juvenile age of onset and elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein.

abstract：:A case of acute cerebellar ataxia with discrete signs of pyramidal and tegmental involvement is reported, several days after recovery from an upper respiratory infection of unknown etiology. Magnetic resonance imaging showed transient pontine lesions, disappearing in the convalescence phase. Laboratory tests establish...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Groen RJ,Begeer JH,Wilmink JT,le Coultre R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old boy with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) presented with visual hallucinations several years after starting methylphenidate (MPH). The hallucinations resolved upon discontinuation of the drug. Reports of toxic hallucinosis during treatment with MPH are rare. Although the pathogenetic mech...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Porfirio MC,Giana G,Giovinazzo S,Curatolo P

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients who postoperatively developed extensive multiseptated hydrosyringomyelia following surgical repair of a lumbal meningomyelocele are reported. Since MRI has been available, an increasing number of reports showed that MRI is useful in the diagnosis of hydrosyringomyelia. Hydrosyringomyelia can be considered...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： van Hall MH,Beuls EA,Wilmink JT,Boiten J,Vles JS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutis laxa is a heterogeneous group of diseases, characterized by abundant and wrinkled skin and a variable degree of intellectual disability. Cutis laxa, autosomal recessive, type IIIA and autosomal dominant 3 syndromes are caused by autosomal recessive or de novo pathogenic variants in ALDH18A1. Autosomal recessive ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Angelini C,Thibaud M,Aladjidi N,Bessou P,Cabasson S,Colson C,Espil-Taris C,Goizet C,Husson M,Morice-Picard F,De Sandre-Giovannoli A,Pédespan JM

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was aimed to assess the accurate incidence of renal stones in severely disabled children treated with topiramate (TPM). METHOD:We reviewed the medical records of severely disabled children with epilepsy under 15 years old who underwent radiological examinations to investigate urinary stones. The stu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Ishikawa N,Tani H,Kobayashi Y,Kato A,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial extent and distribution of leptomeningeal angiomatosis, visualized by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA) enhancement, is demonstrated in four children with Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS). Aged 7, 9, 11 and 19 months, they presented with cutaneous, neurologic and ocular symptoms a...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sperner J,Schmauser I,Bittner R,Henkes H,Bassir C,Sprung C,Scheffner D,Felix R

更新日期：1990-08-01 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：:We report on a child with Chudley-McCullough syndrome and re-evaluate the spectrum of imaging findings (in 15 previously reported patients) which appear to be variable and, to some extent, ambiguous in the literature. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed asymmetric colpocephaly with agenesis of the spleniu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kau T,Veraguth D,Schiegl H,Scheer I,Boltshauser E

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rett syndrome is a neurological disorder associated with cortical atrophy, stereotyped hand movements, dementia, and extrapyramidal dysfunction. Endogenous levels of dopamine and its metabolites are decreased throughout the neocortex and basal ganglia and the number of dopamine type 2 receptors are decreased in the pu...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wenk GL

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of mitochondrial mutations with primary pathogenic significance for Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in patients with a multiple sclerosis-like phenotype and the preferential maternal transmission points to an involvement of the mitochondrial genome in conferring increased susceptibility to MS. To ev...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wilichowski E,Ohlenbusch A,Hanefeld F

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：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：: ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Forsyth R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM: Attention deficit with or without hyperactivity (AD[H]D) is a common comorbidity of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1). We tested the hypothesis that permanent medication with methylphenidate can improve cognitive functioning in children with NF 1 and comorbid AD(H)D. PATIENTS AND METHOD: We retrospectively analyzed...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Lidzba K,Granstroem S,Leark RA,Kraegeloh-Mann I,Mautner VF

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headaches in children and adolescents remain a very common problem with migraine being the most common headache disorder to present to medical attention. The approach to the treatment of migraine in children has consisted of treatment with acute and preventive medications, combined with lifestyle modification and beha...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Doll E,Threlkeld B,Graff D,Clemons R,Mittel O,Sowell MK,McDonald M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial spinal neurofibromatosis (FSNF) is a rare localized subtype of NF1 which shows neurological symptomatology during adult life. Only a few families have been reported to date. We describe a family in which three members in two generations, mother, son and daughter, were affected. The patients, aged 48, 22 and 1...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pascual-Castroviejo I,Pascual-Pascual SI,Velazquez-Fragua R,Botella P,Viaño J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously healthy one-year-old boy, the youngest child of unrelated parents, presented with a four-week history of episodes of myoclonus triggered only by tactile stimulation to his head. There had been no loss of developmental skills. The electroencephalogram (EEG) revealed generalised polyspike wave activity both...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kurian MA,King MD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to ascertain frequency of mutations in POLR3A or POLR3B, which are associated with 4H leukodystrophy, in a cohort of patients with unclassified hypomyelination. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a cohort of 22 patients with the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnosis of unclassified hypomyelination a...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cayami FK,La Piana R,van Spaendonk RM,Nickel M,Bley A,Guerrero K,Tran LT,van der Knaap MS,Bernard G,Wolf NI

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in two brothers two years after measles infection. The diagnosis was confirmed by compatible data from medical history, occurrence of autochthonic measles virus (MV) IgG production in the central nervous system (CNS), and pathognomonic EEG changes....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vieker S,Schmitt JJ,Behrens C,Weissbrich B,Hartmann H

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few years there has been increasing awareness of the association of congenital choanal atresia (CCA) with other congenital defects, including brain abnormalities. We obtained CT scans of the brain in twenty-three consecutive patients with CCA (10 boys and 13 girls) to determine the prevalence and the sco...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Rejjal A,Alaiyan S,Coates R,Abuzeid M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare genetic disorder, which is caused by partial deletion of the short arm of one chromosome 4. Brain magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings are lacking. We report on brain findings in 10 children with WHS. We evaluated the MR imaging films of 10 subjects affected by WHS, which h...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Righini A,Ciosci R,Selicorni A,Bianchini E,Parazzini C,Zollino M,Lodi M,Triulzi F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-month-old boy presented with acute-onset cerebellar ataxia following immunisation. Ataxia was prolonged with a fluctuating course over a period of two years. Opsoclonus was never observed. Extensive diagnostic studies were negative during this time. Finally, a neuroblastoma was discovered. Ataxia disappeared comp...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wolff M,Schöning M,Niemann G,Krägeloh-Mann I

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 5.3-year-old girl with autism, mental retardation, hypotonia, marked speech delay, and mild dysmorphic features with a 22q11.2 duplication. Her mother carries the same duplication and presents cleft palate, and normal intelligence. The clinical and behavioural phenotype of this relatively new syndrome is...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Lo-Castro A,Galasso C,Cerminara C,El-Malhany N,Benedetti S,Nardone AM,Curatolo P

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, biochemical and morphological findings in a 16-month-old infant girl with pseudo-neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy are reported. The parents were first cousins and the baby was born at term, small for gestational age. The neonatal period was characterized by convulsions resistant to treatment, generalized, sever...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kyllerman M,Blomstrand S,Månsson JE,Conradi NG,Hindmarsh T

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:Micro syndrome is a rare condition in which congenital cataracts, microphthalmia, and facial dysmorphism are associated with severe neurological disorders, namely: microcephaly and psychomotor retardation. We report on polymicrogyria and motor neuropathy in a patient with Micro syndrome. These findings provide new ins...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Nassogne MC,Henrot B,Saint-Martin C,Kadhim H,Dobyns WB,Sébire G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The study aims to describe cerebral MRI in different onset forms of Niemann-Pick type C (NPC). Systematic MRI analyses in this rare lysosomal storage disease are lacking in the infantile and juvenile onset forms. METHODS:Thirty-two cerebral MRI scans from 19 patients with NPC were assessed using a newly establishe...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gburek-Augustat J,Groeschel S,Kern J,Beck-Woedl S,Just J,Harzer K,Stampfer M,Kraegeloh-Mann I

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital bilateral perisylvian syndrome (CBPS) is a rare neurological disorder associated with typical clinical and imaging features such as bilateral symmetrical polymicrogyria, either exclusively or mainly affecting the perisylvian region of the brain. We present a girl with the typical clinical picture of a CBPS ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hecher L,Johannsen J,Bierhals T,Buhk JH,Hempel M,Denecke J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in the central nervous system is highly region-specific. We tested the hypothesis that certain developmental biomarkers could be detected in the whole brain or in cortical, subcortical or cerebellar structures. Brain gene expressions of male and female rats at birth, 3 days, and 10 days of age were mea...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Torbati D,Totapally BR,Raszynski A,Osborne J,Zyl Lv,Kalomiris S,Wolfsdorf J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are reporting the unique coexistence of two distinct neuromuscular diseases, myotonic dystrophy and the juvenile form of myasthenia gravis, occurring in one family. A 16-month-old previously healthy female presented with a two month history of bilateral varying drooping of both eyelids and bilateral external ophtha...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Maytal J,Spiro AJ,Sinnar S,Moshe SL

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00