Pediatric Brain Tumors.

abstract：:Neurologic syndromes in AIDS are of four types: infections, para-infections, neoplastic, and paraneoplastic. All levels of the neuraxis can be affected. Neurologic complications may be the initial symptom or the cause of death. Aggressive evaluation, including biopsy of cerebral lesions, is indicated because effective...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Britton CB,Miller JR

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairments of visual perception resulting from brain damage can have serious implications for many aspects of patients' lives, and these impairments should be targeted for intervention. Rehabilitation programs need to be individually tailored to each patient's needs; thus, characterization of a patient's visual perce...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Anderson SW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the potentially devastating effects of hemorrhagic stroke, it is critical that an effective treatment paradigm be defined. This report briefly reviews the various subtypes of hemorrhagic stroke, considers the indications for surgery, and discusses specific surgical treatment options. ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Ashley WW Jr,Charbel FT,Amin-Hanjani S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smartphones make mobile computing at point of care practical. Smartphones can think, sync, and link. Built-in and user-installed applications facilitate communications between neurologists and their medical colleagues and patients and augment data acquisition and processing in the core medical information domains of p...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Busis N

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcineurin inhibitors cyclosporine and tacrolimus are used for their immunosuppressive effects. Neurotoxic side effects include tremor, paresthesia, and headache. Rarer neurotoxicities include seizure, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, and encephalopathy. Tacrolimus tends to be more neurotoxic than cy...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Coe CL,Horst SN,Izzy MJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite important advances in the treatment of epilepsy over the past several decades, many patients remain uncontrolled. Partial complex (psychomotor) seizures are the largest problem, with less than two thirds of patients successfully managed despite optimal medication use. In these situations, various surgical proc...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Spencer DD,Spencer SS

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of medical and ethical opinion holds that it is justifiable to terminate medical treatment for permanently unconscious persons. But opponents of particular decisions to withhold or withdraw treatment may argue that the decisions violate laws against homicide, pose a threat to the lives of other less sever...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Beresford HR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legal issues must be considered in caring for patients with epilepsy. Doctors caring for people with epilepsy may be legally involved in three primary ways: as the agent of social control, as patient advocate, and as the target of liability or malpractice suits. This article examines these factors and the implications...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Hughes JT,Devinsky O

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsurgical, conservative approaches to spine pain include medication and physical therapy. In addition, several invasive procedures have been developed to provide relief when conservative options fail. These include facet joint injection and radiofrequency ablation techniques, translaminar and transforaminal epidural...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Levin KH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infantile spasms are a seizure disorder in young infants with diverse etiologies, suggesting that they arise from any disturbance of central nervous system function during susceptible periods of development. The prognosis for normal intellectual and neurologic development parallels that of the underlying etiology. Ear...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Bobele GB,Bodensteiner JB

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional disease-modifying agents are only moderately effective, so breakthrough disease activity is commonly seen. The evidence from randomized clinical trials and real-world observational data supporting the use of the second-line agents natalizumab, mitoxantrone, and cyclophosphamide are reviewed. Potential fut...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Marriott JJ,O'Connor PW

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system is involved in approximately 25% of patients with classical Wegener's granulomatosis. The spectrum of this disease has been broadened with the discovery of the anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, which are found in diseases sharing many clinical features. The ANCA testing may indicate a common m...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Jaffe IA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis is a multisystem disorder characterized by changes primarily involving the skin, eye, and central nervous system. Although the disease often produces mental retardation and seizures, this is not universal, and some patients with tuberous sclerosis lead a relatively normal life. ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Hanno R,Beck R

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic approach to the patient with cancer with suspected CNS infection depends on an analysis of the patient's immune defect, the time course of development of manifestations of infection, and the type of clinical syndrome with supportive evidence for a specific diagnosis coming from laboratory and neuroradio...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Pruitt AA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraproteinemia frequently is associated with peripheral neuropathy. The clinical manifestations can be protean owing to the potential for multiple organ involvement. A methodical diagnostic approach to patients who have a plasma cell dyscrasia and neuropathy is necessary to ensure the appropriate detection of more wi...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Kwan JY

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most CNS fungal infections can be divided into those that occur in normal hosts and those that occur in the immunosuppressed host. Cryptococcal infection, however, is common in both groups. The usual clinical presentation of a CNS fungal infection is chronic headache and mental status change. The CSF shows a lymphocyt...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Lyons RW,Andriole VT

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced seizures are a commonly encountered problem for physicians. In this article, drugs that cause seizures are discussed with regards to the incidence of seizures, associated clinical factors, risk factors, and special treatment considerations. This information should help physicians determine appropriate eva...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Garcia PA,Alldredge BK

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no single definition of pharmacoresistant (intractable, refractory) epilepsy. Prospective identification of pharmacoresistance is complicated by the variability of its appearance across different types of epilepsy and the variability of seizure control within a given patient over time. Failure of informative ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Berg AT

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reasonable clinical approach to the patient who has low back pain includes a search for any of the red flags that would prompt consideration of additional diagnostic testing for serious underlying disease. The common patterns of back pain would be explored in an effort to categorize the patient's symptoms and to b...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Swenson R

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shift work and its negative consequences are becoming more relevant as the economy becomes increasing globalized. For many individuals, shift work serves as a significant biological and psychosocial challenge leading to Shift Work Disorder (SWD). Beyond the symptoms of sleep and excessive sleepiness, the range of cons...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Cheng P,Drake C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author discusses the noninvasive tests and their roles relative to intravenous digital subtraction angiography in the assessment of patients with carotid disease. ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Ackerman RH

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 2 per cent of organ transplant recipients develop primary CNS lymphomas. There is no pathognomonic clinical or radiographic presentation of the tumor, although multicentric involvement of deep white matter is common. Evidence has linked PCNSL to immunosuppression and to infection with the EBV. The most r...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Patchell RA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, the authors present a critical overview of the historical development, indications, complications, operative techniques, and results of procedures for the alleviation of the major dyskinesias. Emphasis is placed upon recent refinement of technique, particularly stereotaxis, as well as neurophysiologic ...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Zager EL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologically critically ill patients, more often than others, are unable to communicate and, for a crucial period of time, have the vital functions of their brains hidden in the "black box" of the cranial vault behind a curtain of ambiguity and immobility. Customarily--and naively--we have relied upon beside clinica...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Jordan KG

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postherpetic pain persisting 1 month or longer occurs in only a small percentage of all patients with herpes zoster. In most patients, PHN tends to diminish with time. The incidence is, however, directly related to age. Any therapeutic claim for prophylaxis or treatment of PHN has to be evaluated with these observatio...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Watson CP

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echocardiography is an established technology encompassing an increasingly wide variety of clinical situations including cardioembolism and the detection of CAD in patients with cerebral ischemia and in patients undergoing neurovascular surgery. Echocardiography will continue to occupy a pivotal role in clinical manag...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Tegeler CH,Kitzman DW

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unresponsive patients with or without catatonic motor signs are etiologically heterogeneous, and all require a comprehensive neurodiagnostic assessment to rule out organic causes. Most cases prove to be due to primary psychiatric disorders, mostly mood disorders, especially mania, rather than schizophrenia. These pati...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Hurwitz TA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mortality and morbidity from kidney disease and the spectrum of renal-associated neurologic disease have changed markedly since the introduction of renal dialysis and with the advent of renal transplantation. This article includes historical studies of the neurologic complications of acute uremia, now fairly uncommon,...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Palmer CA

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, the authors provide a conceptual framework in which to consider alternative approaches to identify the developmental consequences of exposing the developing brain to neurotoxic substances. Concepts underlying brain development and issues regarding neurobehavioral testing in children are reviewed. In a...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Trask CL,Kosofsky BE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses antibodies associated with immune-mediated myasthenia gravis and the pathologic action of these antibodies at the neuromuscular junctions of skeletal muscle. To explain how these antibodies act, we consider the physiology of neuromuscular transmission with emphasis on 4 features: the structure o...

journal_title：Neurologic clinics

authors： Ruff RL,Lisak RP

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00