Narcolepsy with cataplexy as presenting symptom of occult neuroblastoma.

abstract：:An infant, 26 weeks gestation, had a stormy neonatal course; at 10 hours of age, initial cranial ultrasound apparently demonstrated a left subependymal hemorrhage placed somewhat medially with possible extension into the lateral ventricle. These ultrasound findings were present up to and including a study on the seven...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Imaizumi SO,Pleasure JR,Zubrow AB

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:The present report concerns a vertically human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected 7-year-old child, in whom a neurodegenerative disease occurred after an acute neurologic disorder that was in all likelihood symptomatic of HIV-1 encephalitis. At the steady state the neurologic disease fulfilled the accepted...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Angelini L,Zibordi F,Triulzi F,Pinzani R,Plebani A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old girl (Patient 1) and a 5-year-old boy (Patient 2) with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis after Japanese B encephalitis vaccination are reported. Drowsiness, paresthesias, and gait disturbance were observed at 14 days (Patient 1) and 17 days (Patient 2) after the vaccination; however, transient impairme...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ohtaki E,Murakami Y,Komori H,Yamashita Y,Matsuishi T

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to distinguish patients testing positive for human herpesvirus 6 from those testing negative, based on clinical features and magnetic resonance images. Sixteen immunosuppresed patients were tested by polymerase chain reaction for human herpes virus 6 DNA in cerebrospinal fluid (nine positive results). Medica...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Provenzale JM,van Landingham K,White LE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to define the dose of pirfenidone in children and adolescents with neurofibromatosis 1 and plexiform neurofibromas that is pharmacokinetically comparable to the active adult dose. Pirfenidone was administered orally on a continuous dosing schedule. The starting dose level was 250 mg/m2/dose. The second dose l...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Babovic-Vuksanovic D,Widemann BC,Dombi E,Gillespie A,Wolters PL,Toledo-Tamula MA,O'Neill BP,Fox E,MacDonald T,Beck H,Packer RJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporadic nonsyndromic cerebellar hypoplasia is a radiological diagnosis with clinical features and a relation with developmental disability that are presently not known. Through a retrospective review of a comprehensive standardized computerized database containing more than 2,500 patients examined consecutively by a ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Shevell MI,Majnemer A

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurophysiologic intraoperative monitoring, using somatosensory, brainstem auditory, and visual evoked potentials, transcranial electric motor stimulation, and electromyography, is typically used during complex surgeries involving the motor and sensory cortex, brainstem, cranial nerves, spinal cord, nerve root, periph...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Galloway GM,Zamel K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is an inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system. Uniform diagnostic criteria for acute disseminated encephalomyelitis did not exist until publication of expert-defined consensus definitions by the International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Society Group in 2007, with upda...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cole J,Evans E,Mwangi M,Mar S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with autosomal dominant Segawa disease (dopa-responsive dystonia) demonstrate excellent, sustained response to low-dose levodopa. In contrast, the development of levodopa limiting treatment dyskinesias is thought to support the diagnosis of other early-onset dystonia/parkinsonism syndromes. We describe an aty...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： López-Laso E,Beyer K,Opladen T,Artuch R,Saunders-Pullman R

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Amphetamine-derived medications are being prescribed with increasing frequency to younger pediatric patients to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although choreiform movements were reported in adults with amphetamine abuse and in those under therapeutic treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disor...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ford JB,Albertson TE,Owen KP,Sutter ME,McKinney WB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy presented with hypertension, seizures, lethargy, headache, and occipital blindness. He improved with antihypertensive therapy. Other reported children with a similar distinctive clinical condition are compared with adults with a syndrome termed reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy. Because both gray and whit...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Pavlakis SG,Frank Y,Kalina P,Chandra M,Lu D

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case reports of 4 pediatric patients illustrate the complex clinical scenarios in which childhood rhabdomyolysis/myoglobinuria occurs. Children ranged in age from 8-18 years. Presumed etiologies of rhabdomyolysis/myoglobinuria included Neisseria sepsis, exertion-related episodes, dialysis disequilibrium, and diabe...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the sensory evoked potentials in pediatric Wilson disease to verify their subclinical neurologic involvement and to elucidate the role of cirrhosis in abnormal evoked potentials in non-neurologic Wilson disease. Thirty children (17 male, 13 female), diagnosed with Wilson disease before 18 years, were enroll...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hsu YS,Chang YC,Lee WT,Ni YH,Hsu HY,Chang MH

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syncope affects all age groups and is characterized by a brief sudden loss of consciousness followed by fast recovery. Vasovagal syncope, the most common type, is generally assumed to be due to venous pooling and an abnormal sympathetic response. In approximately 20% of cases, more than one family member is affected. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Daas A,Mimouni-Bloch A,Rosenthal S,Shuper A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome, caused by dysfunction in mitochondrial energy metabolism, is an inherited, heterogeneous, and progressive neurodegenerative disorder of infancy and childhood. From 1983 to August 2006, 14 cases diagnosed with Leigh syndrome were studied in terms of characteristic neuroimaging findings and abnormal mito...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lee HF,Tsai CR,Chi CS,Lee HJ,Chen CC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache hygiene refers to self-management behaviors and practices aimed at reducing headache-related disability and improving self-efficacy. Although self-management interventions have an established place in the management of a wide range of chronic conditions, there is still not a standardized approach to this in p...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Barmherzig R,Lagman-Bartolome AM,Marlowe S,Kohut SA,Gunn G,Olivieri H,Mulligan J,Grundy-Bozinis K,Gladstone J,Lay C,MacGregor D

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male with developmental dysphasia is documented with fine motor dysfunction whose improvement in expressive language was associated with increased cerebellar perfusion, as detected by serial N-isopropyl-p-[iodine-123] iodoamphetamine single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). His expressive language has bee...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Oki J,Takahashi S,Miyamoto A,Tachibana Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leigh syndrome is an inherited, progressive neurodegenerative disorder of infancy and childhood. Mutations in the nuclear SURF-1 gene are specifically associated with cytochrome C oxidase-deficient Leigh syndrome. This report describes two patients with similar facial features. One of them was a 2(1/2)-year-old male, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yüksel A,Seven M,Cetincelik U,Yeşil G,Köksal V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients who undergo metabolic decompensation from urea cycle disorders, cerebrospinal fluid glutamine level may be a better marker of cerebral dysfunction than blood ammonia or glutamine levels. However, obtaining cerebrospinal fluid by lumbar puncture carries risk in these acutely ill patients with cerebral edema...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kojic J,Robertson PL,Quint DJ,Martin DM,Pang Y,Sundgren PC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk factors for mortality of young children with cerebral palsy were studied using a sample of 12,709 children aged 0.5-3.5 years with cerebral palsy who had received services from the State of California between 1980 and 1995. The most powerful prognostic factors for survival were simple functional items: mobility a...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Strauss DJ,Shavelle RM,Anderson TW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated by immunohistochemistry the distribution of protective protein in human tissues. Immunoreactivity was observed in the cytoplasm, revealing a granular pattern and cell type specificity. The most intense staining was observed in the large neurons of brain, distal and collecting tubular cells of ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sohma O,Mizuguchi M,Takashima S,Satake A,Itoh K,Sakuraba H,Suzuki Y,Oyanagi K

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A boy diagnosed as having glycogenosis type II at three years of age, underwent a sural nerve biopsy at the age of seven years. The distribution of the diameters of myelinated nerve fibers did not clearly demonstrate a bimodal pattern. However, larger fibers of 8 microns or more in diameter were more abundant. This fi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Origuchi Y,Itai Y,Matsumoto S,Matsuishi T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of Behr syndrome remains uncertain. A 6-year-old girl with a progressive syndrome of optic atrophy, ataxia, myoclonic epilepsy, urinary incontinence, and pyramidal tract degeneration suggestive of Behr syndrome is described. Diffuse, symmetric white matter abnormalities were demonstrated by magnetic reson...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Marzan KA,Barron TF

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6-year-old boy with the typical clinical features of infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy was examined with magnetic resonance imaging. The findings suggested increased metal deposition in the globus pallidus. Magnetic resonance imaging findings of Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome and infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy are simil...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ito M,Okuno T,Asato R,Mutoh K,Nakano S,Kataoka K,Fujii T,Mikawa H,Saida K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute transverse myelitis is a rare Borellia burgdorferi-related neurologic complication in childhood. We present a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with acute transverse myelitis associated with a borreliosis infection. We also review clinical features in all five cases of Borellia burgdorferi-related transverse my...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Erol I,Kılıçarslan B,Saygi S,Demir S,Alehan F

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insufficient nutrition is known to lead to disturbances in postnatal myelin formation. This study aims to demonstrate that early myelination is altered in human twin pregnancies. Five brains of twins with a symmetric blood supply and three brains of twins with chronic fetal-fetal transfusion syndrome (one hypervolemic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ulfig N,Nickel J,Saretzki U

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloid cysts of the third ventricle are benign intracranial tumors that usually become symptomatic in adults, rather than in children. Rare hemorrhages in these cysts can cause acute obstructive hydrocephalus and sudden death. We report a novel pediatric case of hemorrhagic colloid cyst in a 9-year-old girl who prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Farooq MU,Bhatt A,Chang HT

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of a 7-month-old girl with developmental delay and intractable seizures revealed hemispheric asymmetry and an enlarged right cerebral hemisphere. Because of a history of seizures refractory to medical therapy, she was admitted for right hemispherectomy, but died of complications of surgery. Postmortem brain...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jahan R,Mischel PS,Curran JG,Peacock WJ,Shields DW,Vinters HV

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00