Randomized, Single-Blind, Parallel Clinical Trial on Efficacy of Oral Prednisolone Versus Intramuscular Corticotropin on Immediate and Continued Spasm Control in West Syndrome.

abstract：:Chronic oral VP-16 (etoposide) is a chemotherapy regimen with a wide application in oncology and documented efficacy against germ cell tumors, lymphomas, Kaposi's sarcoma, and primary brain tumors. This study was performed to assess the toxicity and activity of chronic oral etoposide in the management of children with...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Chamberlain MC

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-2 hydroxyglutaric aciduria is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited metabolic disorder of organic acid metabolism. A 5-year-old boy presented with eyelid myoclonia with absences that proved difficult to control with first-line anticonvulsants. An electroencephalogram produced profoundly abnormal results, with gene...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mete A,Isikay S,Sirikci A,Ozkur A,Bayram M

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:The frequency and severity of neurologic symptoms in children with systemic cancer is unknown. The authors reviewed the records of children with systemic cancer for whom a neurologic consultation was requested between 1993 and 1996. The 157 patients had 161 malignancies and 205 consultations. Leukemia (59) and lymphom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Antunes NL,De Angelis LM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of West Nile virus meningoencephalitis in a previously healthy adolescent. Clinical features included fever, altered mental status, and speech difficulty, with subsequent hyperesthesia, ataxia, and motor weakness, all of which eventually resolved completely. Magnetic resonance imaging was ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： DeBiasi RL,Parsons JA,Grabert BE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy exhibited a phenotype of neurofibromatosis 1. He had large and multiple café-au-lait spots, and had elevated serum levels of very long chain fatty acids. The patient's mother and elder sister also had X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. This case represents novel manifestations ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Yamada H,Izumi T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-year-old boy with severe growth retardation, mild mental retardation, and hypospadia had a high serum CK level without muscle weakness and atrophy. Muscle biopsy revealed a moderate variation in fiber size with a few necrotic and scattered regenerating fibers. Although muscle membranes were clearly stained by immu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nagai T,Tuchiya Y,Maruyama A,Sakuta R,Nonaka I

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:We describe two children from a consanguineous family who manifested mega-corpus callosum, polymicrogyria, and psychomotor retardation. These patients also exhibited the brain anomalies of pontine hypoplasia and an abnormal cerebellar vermis. Our report confirms the genetic nature of megalencephaly-polymicrogyria-mega...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bindu PS,Taly AB,Sinha S,Bharath RD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Musicogenic epilepsy is a relatively rare form of epilepsy. In its pure form, it is characterized by epileptic seizures that are provoked exclusively by listening to music. The usual type of seizure is partial complex or generalized tonic-clonic. Precipitating factors are quite specific, such as listening to only one ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lin KL,Wang HS,Kao PF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Searching for a tool to quantify motor impairment in spina bifida, transcranial and lumbar magnetic stimulation were applied in affected newborn infants. Lumbar magnetic stimulation resulted in motor evoked potentials in both the quadriceps muscle and the tibialis anterior muscle in most (11/13) subjects. However, tra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Geerdink N,Pasman JW,Roeleveld N,Rotteveel JJ,Mullaart RA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic T-cell lymphoma presenting with neurologic symptoms is infrequently reported in immunocompetent children. We investigated the presenting features in all 20 immunocompetent children diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma at our institution from 1992-2004. Four children presented with neurologic features. These finding...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bassuk AG,Mohile NA,Stack C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course of anti-muscle specific kinase-positive myasthenia in children has been little reported. Described here is the case of an 8 year-old boy who presented with ptosis and generalized weakness, which resolved within 1 month without any immunomodulatory treatment. This spontaneous remission lasted 6 year...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Anlar B,Yilmaz V,Saruhan-Direskeneli G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with self-inflicted strangulation injuries had cerebral blood flow determined by stable xenon computed tomography (XeCTCBF) within 24 hours of admission. All had suffered a severe hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury; 3 initially had fixed pupils, all were apneic with varying bradyarrhythmias, and the initia...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ashwal S,Perkin RM,Thompson JR,Tomasi LG,van Stralen D,Schneider S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier reports on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the classical form of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease seemed to divide the patterns of the high-intensity lesions in the white matter into three subtypes: type I, diffusely hemispheric and corticospinal; type II, diffusely hemispheric without brainstem le...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nezu A,Kimura S,Takeshita S,Osaka H,Kimura K,Inoue K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a female who was diagnosed with Wegener's granulomatosis at 4 years of age with life-threatening intracranial bleeding. The patient's serum was positive for c-antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibodies, and histologic analysis of the lung biopsy revealed evidence of granulomatous vasculitis. Initial treatment w...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Haas JP,Metzler M,Ruder H,Waldherr R,Böswald M,Rupprecht T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system manifestations of acute myeloid leukemia are rare at presentation. Acute cranial nerve findings on neurologic examination can be indications for brain imaging. Magnetic resonance imaging can highlight cranial nerves emerging from the brainstem, particularly if they are gadolinium-enhanced or thi...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Mott J,Carlson MD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination is one of several useful tools for early identification of cerebral palsy; however, cut-off scores for cerebral palsy do not consistently distinguish infants with hemiplegia from those typically developing. We hypothesized that use of an asymmetry score, in add...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Hay K,Nelin M,Carey H,Chorna O,Moore-Clingenpeel Ma Mas M,Maitre N,NCH Early Developmental Group.

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:A 16-year-old girl developed right middle cerebral artery infarction and deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities in association with circulating lupus-like anticoagulant. Currently, she is functionally independent with no further vascular insults and is being treated with sodium warfarin. This patient illustra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kelley RE,Berger JR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidural hematoma due to birth trauma is unusual. The presentation is similar to subdural hematoma in the newborn, but the results of subdural puncture may be normal. The CT scan is diagnostic and early surgical evacuation may be lifesaving. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Gama CH,Fenichel GM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting cerebral glucose metabolism was assessed by 18[F]-fluorodeoxyglucose in 11 Down syndrome patients. Standardized uptake values were determined on a pixel-by-pixel basis from the measured tissue-activity data. The results revealed a mean overall 18[F]-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the Down syndrome patients close...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Lengyel Z,Balogh E,Emri M,Szikszai E,Kollár J,Sikula J,Esik O,Trón L,Oláh E

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical spectrum of the congenital muscular dystrophies is reviewed using as a sample population 10 Sicilian patients with various clinical subtypes. A comprehensive classification scheme for the muscular dystrophies is presented based on recent advances in our understanding of this heterogeneous group of syndrom...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Parano E,Pavone L,Fiumara A,Falsaperla R,Trifiletti RR,Dobyns WB

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulant therapy is usually contraindicated in patients with movement disorders such as tics or chorea. A young boy is reported who had benign hereditary chorea and attention deficit disorder, whose chorea, handwriting, and independent ambulation paradoxically improved with methylphenidate treatment. ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Friederich RL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complications of 50 Chinese children with neurofibromatosis-1 were found to be different from other ethnic groups. There was a predominance of scoliosis, speech problems, and blood malignancies, but brain tumors were rare. The majority had good prognosis. Clinical manifestations depend on the age of ascertainment ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Wong VC

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a serious chronic brain disorder of childhood. We performed a cross-sectional prevalence study, determined the prevalence of childhood epilepsy, and identified the significance of certain risk factors for epilepsy among 1625 primary-school students aged 6-14 years, living in the center of Kars province. A ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Huseyinoglu N,Ozben S,Arhan E,Palanci Y,Gunes N

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Planning strategies to encourage students to pursue a career in pediatric neurology requires assessment of their attitudes and career choices. A structured 30-item questionnaire was designed to examine students' attitudes toward pediatric neurology. In the study, 161 final-year medical students (1999-2000), 20-26 year...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Jan MM,Fida NM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbamazepine has been used successfully in the treatment of different movement disorders and was recently reported to be effective for nonhereditary chorea. In view of the significant side effects associated with the drugs currently used to treat chorea, we sought to further evaluate the efficacy of carbamazepine in ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Harel L,Zecharia A,Straussberg R,Volovitz B,Amir J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrhythmia may be one of the major causes of sudden unexpected death in children with epilepsy. We assessed drug-induced QT prolongation to establish whether the use of antiepileptic drugs contributes to sudden unexpected death. A total of 178 children with epilepsy (93 males and 85 females, with ages ranging ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kwon S,Lee S,Hyun M,Choe BH,Kim Y,Park W,Cho Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study used xenon 133 inhalation and single-photon computed tomography to measure regional cerebral blood flow during a quiet resting condition, a simple auditory task, and an auditory phonemic discrimination task in 3 age-matched groups of children suffering from developmental language disabilities: expressive dy...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Tzourio N,Heim A,Zilbovicius M,Gerard C,Mazoyer BM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00