Pediatric neurology / Gregory L. Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Gregory L.

Series:

What do I do now?

What do I do now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pediatric neurology--Case studies.

Pediatric neurology.

Neurology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What do I do now? Pediatric patients with neurological symptoms or problems pose many clinical challenges and even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. From time to time, children are brought into the pediatrician's office with puzzling neurological symptoms--breath holding spells, refusal to walk, infantile spasms, skin lesions, floppy or absent reflexes--that leave their doctors wondering ""what do I do now?"" Pediatric Neurology serves the need for a quick reference tool to address these perplex

Contents:

Table of Contents; 1 Absence Seizures; 2 Acute Cerebellar Ataxia; 3 Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood; 4 Benign Neonatal Sleep Myoclonus; 5 Benign Rolandic Epilepsy; 6 Brain Abscess; 7 Breath-Holding Spells/Pallid Infantile Syncope; 8 Childhood Epilepsy with Occipital Paroxysms (CEOP); 9 Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy; 10 Discitis; 11 Dopamine-Responsive Dystonia; 12 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; 13 Febrile Seizures; 14 Fragile X Syndrome; 15 Hashimoto's Encephalopathy; 16 Hydrocephalus; 17 Infantile Spasms; 18 Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy; 19 Lissencephaly; 20 Moyamoya Disease

21 Neurofibromatosis22 Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia; 23 Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Syndrome; 24 Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency; 25 Rett Syndrome; 26 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA); 27 Status Epilepticus; 28 Tethered Cord; 29 The Worster-Drought Syndrome; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-932292-9

1-282-66132-9

9786612661327

0-19-975047-5

OCLC:

646788803