Aiming at neuroblastoma and hitting other worthy targets.

abstract：:An 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister presented with psychomotor retardation during the 1st year of life. This was followed by spasticity, seizures, and in the older patient, progressive loss of faculties and death. Computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging scans demonstrated progressive cerebral atro...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： de León GA,Crawford SE,Stack C,Darling CF,Johnson GS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To document the impact of Tourette syndrome on the health care needs of children and access to health care among youth with Tourette syndrome, parent-reported data from the 2007-2008 National Survey of Children's Health were analyzed. Children with Tourette syndrome had more co-occurring mental disorders than children...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bitsko RH,Danielson M,King M,Visser SN,Scahill L,Perou R

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed 10 youth football players (13.4 ± 0.7 y) immediately before and after their season to explore the effects of football participation on selected clinical measures of neurologic function. Postseason postural stability in a closed-eye condition was improved compared to preseason (P = .017). Neurocognitive tes...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Munce TA,Dorman JC,Odney TO,Thompson PA,Valentine VD,Bergeron MF

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past 10 years' experience with bone marrow transplantation from normal, immunologically compatible donors indicates its possible use in various neurometabolic diseases, particularly in a patient who has not suffered irreparable brain damage. This experience may be a prelude to treatment by somatic gene therapy. Th...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Ozand PT,Gascon GG

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral vasculitis and clinically important myocardial inflammation are rare in juvenile dermatomyositis. We report a previously healthy 6-year-old girl with dermatomyositis who died after a fulminating clinical deterioration. Postmortem examination of the heart revealed characteristic endothelial tubuloreticular agg...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Jimenez C,Rowe PC,Keene D

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologic findings in an infant with congenital facial diplegia (Möbius syndrome) are presented. As to serial electrically elicited blink reflexes, the R1 amplitude was significantly reduced and the R2 latency was significantly prolonged. The M response of the orbicularis oculi muscle showed slightly redu...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hatanaka T,Yoshijima S,Hayashi N,Owa K,Suehiro Y,Shinomiya K

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct perfusion of specific regions of the central nervous system by convection-enhanced delivery is becoming more widely used for the delivery of compounds in the research and treatment of various neural disorders. In contrast to other currently available central nervous system delivery techniques, convection-enhanc...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Song DK,Lonser RR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven children with neuromuscular disease were placed on mechanical ventilation before the age of 2 years. The outcome for these patients was variable and did not correlate with primary diagnosis. There appeared to be a high correlation between the incidence of electrocardiogram changes and death. Our experience demon...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Iannaccone ST,Guilfoile T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hypertension is associated with decreased performance on neurocognitive testing and a blunted cerebrovascular reactivity to hypercapnia. Parents of 14 children with hypertension and prehypertension completed the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functions. Children underwent 24-hour ambulatory blood press...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Ostrovskaya MA,Rojas M,Kupferman JC,Lande MB,Paterno K,Brosgol Y,Pavlakis SG

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting reports regarding the efficacy of trihexyphenidyl, an anticholinergic drug, for treatment of dystonia in cerebral palsy. The author hypothesized that trihexyphenidyl may be more effective in specific subgroups and performed a retrospective analysis of 31 children (8.2 ± 5.8 years) with dystonia f...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Ben-Pazi H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 1 (AOA1) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by early-onset and slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, and peripheral neuropathy. Ocular apraxia is most prominent in the early stage of the disease, by contrast, hypoalbuminemia, hypercholesterolemia, and cogniti...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： D'Arrigo S,Riva D,Bulgheroni S,Chiapparini L,Castellotti B,Gellera C,Pantaleoni C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy, together with mental retardation, represents a common manifestation of chromosomal aberrations. Specific electroencephalographic (EEG) and epileptic patterns have been described in several chromosomal disorders, such as Angelman's syndrome, Miller-Dieker syndrome, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and ring 20 syndro...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Grosso S,Pucci L,Farnetani M,Di Bartolo RM,Galimberti D,Mostardini R,Anichini C,Balestri M,Morgese G,Balestri P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of pathologically confirmed Alexander's disease in which serial cranial ultrasound studies demonstrated unique findings of enlarging subependymal cysts with evolving periventricular hyperechogenicity. Computed tomographic scan of the head showed low attenuation of the periventricular white matter an...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Hess DC,Fischer AQ,Yaghmai F,Figueroa R,Akamatsu Y

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic ultrasound has been extensively used for neurologic evaluation of cranial, vascular and spinal diseases. This study presents the techniques, methodology, and procedures for a new diagnostic application of ultrasound for evaluation of the neuromuscular system. In order to determine the optimum sonographic ch...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Fischer AQ,Stephens S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal evidence exists about the risk of recurrent childhood acute ischemic stroke in patients subjected to a subsequent head or neck injury. Recurrent or multiple dissections have been demonstrated in select cases. Minor head trauma has also been associated with acute ischemic stroke. The objective of this study was...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Bernard TJ,deVeber GA,Benke TA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis is characterized by acute- or subacute-onset encephalopathy with extrapyramidal, psychiatric, and epileptic manifestations. Diagnosis is confirmed by positive antibodies to NMDA receptor in cerebrospinal fluid and serum. Eleven pediatric cases presented over a 2-y...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Chakrabarty B,Tripathi M,Gulati S,Yoganathan S,Pandit AK,Sinha A,Rathi BS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients with Leigh's syndrome developed respiratory failure following general anesthesia. Although all three had respiratory symptoms prior to the anesthetic, the diagnosis was not suspected at the time of the procedure in two of the children. We reviewed the case notes of 16 other patients with Leigh's syndrom...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Grattan-Smith PJ,Shield LK,Hopkins IJ,Collins KJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klonopin (clonazepam; Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California) oral wafers are benzodiazepines with anticonvulsive and anxiolytic properties. Our institution has been prescribing clonazepam wafers for acute treatment of prolonged seizures for years. Patients' size determined dosing at 0.25, 0.5, 1, or 2 mg wafe...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Troester MM,Hastriter EV,Ng YT

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether children with epilepsy undergoing valproate therapy and who are otherwise healthy have lower levels of serum and muscle carnitine. A total of 50 patients with epilepsy, 3 to 14 years of age, who were treated solely with valproate and free of abnormal neurologic findin...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Anil M,Helvaci M,Ozbal E,Kalenderer O,Anil AB,Dilek M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the literature, several malformations of cortical development have been described as additional lesions in tuberous sclerosis complex. Among these lesions, a very large focal cortical dysplasia has peculiar magnetic resonance imaging features: a signal abnormality that extends radially inward toward the lateral ven...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Vigliano P,Canavese C,Bobba B,Genitori L,Papalia F,Padovan S,Forni M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 13-year-old female with abrupt onset urinary retention progressing rapidly to pandysautonomia with symptoms of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, gastroparesis, anhidrosis, pupillary dysfunction, and abdominal pain. Pandysautonomia has been reported frequently in adults, but is less commonly desc...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Clark MB,Davis T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich ataxia is a progressive degenerative disease with neurologic and cardiac involvement. This study characterizes comorbid medical conditions in a large cohort of patients with Friedreich ataxia. Patient diagnoses were collected in a large natural history study of 641 subjects. Prevalence of diagnoses in the c...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Shinnick JE,Schadt K,Strawser C,Wilcox N,Perlman SL,Wilmot GR,Gomez CM,Mathews KD,Yoon G,Zesiewicz T,Hoyle C,Subramony SH,Yiu EM,Delatycki MB,Brocht AF,Farmer JM,Lynch DR

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lissencephaly is a brain malformation manifested by a smooth cerebral surface and caused by incomplete neuronal migration. Clinical sequellae include minor craniofacial changes (bitemporal hollowing, small jaw), severe mental retardation, and other neurological abnormalities. Patients with classical or type I lissence...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Pavone L,Gullotta F,Incorpora G,Grasso S,Dobyns WB

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the brain autopsy of a boy who at age 4(1/2) years experienced an episode of fulminant Haemophilus influenzae type b bacterial meningitis, resulting in massive brain destruction and the clinical signs of brain death. However, medical intervention maintained him for an additional two decades. Subs...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Repertinger S,Fitzgibbons WP,Omojola MF,Brumback RA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Torticollis refers to a twisting of the head and neck caused by a shortened sternocleidomastoid muscle, tipping the head toward the shortened muscle, while rotating the chin in the opposite direction. Torticollis is seen at all ages, from newborns to adults. It can be congenital or postnatally acquired. In this review...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Tomczak KK,Rosman NP

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much attention has been focused on the neurological sequelae of the hereditary ataxias, patients with these conditions also may develop cardiac complications that represent a significant cause of disability and even death. In this article, the authors describe the hereditary ataxias with known cardiac involve...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Moore S,Raman SV

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral and quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) techniques were used to evaluate treatment response to stimulant therapy in children with attention disorders. A sample of 130 children with attention disorders were evaluated with Conners and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--III rating sca...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Chabot RJ,Orgill AA,Crawford G,Harris MJ,Serfontein G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the role of cerebral nitric oxide and its powerful oxidant peroxynitrite following mild birth asphyxia. The cerebrospinal fluid levels of nitric oxide and 3-nitrotyrosine as a marker for peroxynitrite are measured in neonates with mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Based...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Gücüyener K,Ergenekon E,Demiryürek T,Erbaş D,Oztürk G,Koç E,Atalay Y

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five children presented in the first months of life with progressive megalencephaly and leukodystrophy characterized by diffuse swelling of the white matter, cystic cavitations in frontal and temporal lobes, and a slow progressive course contrasting with the intensity of the leukodystrophic process. Four had epilepsy....

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Goutières F,Boulloche J,Bourgeois M,Aicardi J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors play an important role in childhood autism. This study is to determine the association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in dopa decarboxylase (DDC) and dopamine receptor-1 (DRD1) genes with childhood autism, in a Chinese Han population. A total of 211 autistic children and 250 age- and gender-matched...

journal_title：Journal of child neurology

authors： Yu H,Liu J,Yang A,Yang G,Yang W,Lei H,Quan J,Zhang Z

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00