Postinfectious encephalomyelitis with localized basal ganglia involvement.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excessive gum-chewing is underreported as a headache precipitant in children and adolescents. We evaluated the influence of daily excessive gum-chewing in older children and teenagers with chronic headache, emphasizing the impact of habit discontinuation and its reintroduction. METHODS:Patients with chronic...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Watemberg N,Matar M,Har-Gil M,Mahajnah M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoaneurysm of the internal carotid artery is an extremely uncommon complication of pediatric deep neck space infections in the postantibiotic era, and poses a diagnostic challenge to clinicians. Early recognition and aggressive management are essential to prevent mortality and serious morbidity. We describe a pseu...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sankararaman S,Velayuthan S,Gonzalez-Toledo E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy have an increased risk of long bone fractures. Such fractures are sometimes associated with brain dysfunction due to fat embolism syndrome, although this syndrome has seldom been documented in muscular dystrophy patients. PATIENT DESCRIPTION:We describe a child w...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bugnitz CJ,Cripe LH,Lo WD,Flanigan KM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 8-year-old Japanese boy had Sakoda complex (basal encephalomeningocele, agenesis of the corpus callosum, and cleft lip and/or palate) associated with bilateral anophthalmia, dysgenesis of the cerebral cortex, severe mental retardation, and intractable epilepsy as core symptoms and hemiparesis, microcephalus, short ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Ehara H,Kurimasa A,Ohno K,Takeshita K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain plasticity refers to its ability to recover after damage. Visual field plasticity is not well recognized. We report a 12-year-old female who first presented with recurrent seizures and was subsequently found to have a large, right occipital cortical dysplasia on magnetic resonance imaging. Her visual field by Go...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kong CK,Wong LY,Yuen MK

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute encephalitis and encephalopathy are life-threatening diseases in children. However, no laboratory examinations are performed for their early diagnosis and treatment. Alpha 2-macroglobulin (α2M) is a blood glycoprotein that increases during the early stages of inflammation. In the present study, we inve...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Suzuki Y,Hashimoto K,Hoshi K,Ito H,Kariya Y,Miyazaki K,Sato M,Kawasaki Y,Yoshida M,Honda T,Hashimoto Y,Hosoya M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sarcoglycan alpha gene, also known as the adhalin gene, is located on chromosome 17q21; mutations in this gene are associated with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D. We describe two Turkish siblings with findings consistent with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D. The evaluation excluded a dystr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Diniz G,Tosun Yildirim H,Akinci G,Hazan F,Ozturk A,Yararbas K,Tukun A

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Transient nonketotic hyperglycinemia is characterized by clinical and biochemical findings similar to those seen in classic nonketotic hyperglycinemia. Abnormalities in amino acids are partially or completely resolved in a period ranging from days to months. Almost all patients with the classic form of nonketotic hype...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Aliefendioğlu D,Tana Aslan Ay,Coşkun T,Dursun A,Cakmak FN,Kesimer M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to search for STA gene defects in three families with clinically typical Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Emery-Dreifuss is an X-linked muscular dystrophy with humeroperoneal weakness and life-threatening, but treatable, cardiac abnormalities in male patients and in female carriers. The...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Nevo Y,Al-Lozi M,Parsadanian AS,Elliott JL,Connolly AM,Pestronk A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma associated with the paraneoplastic syndrome of opsoclonus-myoclonus is well-described. However, presentation with narcolepsy-cataplexy is not well-documented in the literature. Narcolepsy with cataplexy is also rare in children younger than 5 years of age. Here we describe three patients, each presenting...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Sinsioco C,Silver K,Forrest KM,Gray J,Nechay A,Sheldon S,Chelmicka Schorr E

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal nevus syndrome is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by the association of epidermal nevi with central nervous system or skeletal abnormalities. Central nervous system abnormalities include hemimegalencephaly, hydrocephalus, various migration disorders, intraspinal lipomas, and enlarged spinal roots. Ra...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Kara B,Inan N,Bayramgürler D,Altintaş O,Akbulut A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:We present a 2-year-old patient who showed progressive widespread white-matter abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging 1 month after viral encephalitis, despite her good clinical recovery. These lesions on magnetic resonance imaging had not responded to therapies commonly used to treat secondary immune-mediated de...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Awaya T,Kato T,Shibata M,Yamanaka Y,Nakahata T

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonuniform pathologic changes in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy were previously reported only in adult humans. We analyzed the pathologic features of 12 children, aged 2-17 years, with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Six patients manifested a preceding illness. Five patients prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Luan X,Zheng R,Chen B,Yuan Y

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the factors affecting the neurodevelopmental outcome in children with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, 78 children with intraventricular hemorrhage grade 3 or 4 were analyzed concerning the outcome in relation to the grade of intraventricular hemorrhage and intervention (surgical, medical, or no interventio...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Futagi Y,Suzuki Y,Toribe Y,Nakano H,Morimoto K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine is used as second-line medication for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children. Product information concerning clonidine reported seizures only after overdosage of clonidine, and the prescription of clonidine has not been contraindicated in patients with known epilepsy. The prese...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Feron FJ,Hendriksen JG,Nicolai J,Vles JS

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occipital lobe epilepsy in children can present as an idiopathic form (i.e., childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms) or as a symptomatic form. Forty-three children (18 boys, 25 girls) were divided into the idiopathic group or symptomatic group, according to the classification for epileptic seizures of the Interna...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Du JC,Chien YH,Weng WC,Shen YZ,Lee WT

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Children with perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS) are at risk for later neurocognitive and behavioral deficits, yet the clinical predictors of these outcomes are understudied. We examined the influence of clinical and infarct characteristics on attention and executive functioning in children following ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Bosenbark DD,Krivitzky L,Ichord R,Vossough A,Bhatia A,Jastrzab LE,Billinghurst L

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male adolescent developed a sinovenous thrombosis 4 weeks following a Henoch-Schonlein purpura episode. A hypercoagulation evaluation revealed a positive lupus anticoagulant. This suggests an association between Henoch-Schonlein purpura and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and is the first report of sinovenous thr...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Abend NS,Licht DJ,Spencer CH

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pediatric neurologist can fulfill a useful role as a subspecialty consultant concerning the fetus with a suspected brain disorder, given that neurologic disease may occur before the intrapartum period. Brain disorders detected in the neonatal period may also reflect fetal brain damage before dysfunction is first d...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Scher MS

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium channel subunits encoded by several genes of the KCNQ family underlie the M-current. Specifically, KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 play a major role at most neuronal sites. Mutations in KCNQ2 or KCNQ3 that reduce the M-current are responsible for benign familial neonatal seizures, a rare autosomal dominant idiopathic epilep...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Goldberg-Stern H,Kaufmann R,Kivity S,Afawi Z,Heron SE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the mechanisms of central nervous system involvement in children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura, levels of lupus anticoagulant, anticardiolipin antibodies, and anti-β2 glycoprotein I antibodies in serum and cerebrospinal fluid were determined in 46 cases of Henoch-Schönlein purpura with central nervous syste...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Liu A,Zhang H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cavernous malformations are the second most common vascular malformations in the central nervous system, and over one-third are found in children. Lesions may be solitary or multiple, be discovered incidentally, be sporadic, or be secondary to familial cavernomatosis or radiation therapy. Children may present...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Paddock M,Lanham S,Gill K,Sinha S,Connolly DJA

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion was recently established clinicoradiologically as an encephalopathy syndrome. The outcome of this encephalopathy is characterized by a low mortality rate and high incidence of neurologic sequelae. Although the exact pathogenesis of this encephalopa...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Matsuo M,Maeda T,Ono N,Sugihara S,Kobayashi I,Koga D,Hamasaki Y

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young child with Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is presented. She was well until 8 years of age when she lost interest in activities and her school performance declined. At age 11 years, she began having episodes of blepharospasm, accompanied by bilateral ptosis and occasional episodes of oculogyric crisis. By age 12 y...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Zupanc ML,Chun RW,Gilbert-Barness EF

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 5-10% of school-age children manifest migraine headaches. Treatment options for pediatric migraine are limited. Topiramate is approved for migraine prophylaxis in adults, but its use in children is limited. We retrospectively reviewed the records of 37 patients, i.e., 22 (60%) girls and 15 (40%) boys (mean age, ...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Cruz MJ,Valencia I,Legido A,Kothare SV,Khurana DS,Yum S,Hardison HH,Melvin JJ,Marks HG

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a common cause of respiratory tract infection. Extrapulmonary manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection are also common. The present case is that of a previously healthy 4-year-old boy who displayed a novel simultaneous onset of both acute rhabdomyolysis and transverse myelitis associated with...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Weng WC,Peng SS,Wang SB,Chou YT,Lee WT

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rachischisis totalis is a rare open neural tube defect often associated with lethal acrania. When acrania is not present, mortality remains high and morbidity for survivors is extreme. PATIENT:We describe is a term newborn with in-utero diagnosed rachischisis totalis without acrania and Chiari II malformati...

journal_title：Pediatric neurology

authors： Meadows JT Jr,Hayes D Jr

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00