Disorders of the spinal cord in children /
Covering the range of pediatric spinal cord disease, its clinical assessment, appropriate investigation, its medical and neurosurgical management and neuro-rehabilitation.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Mac Keith Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Clinics in developmental medicine.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""AUTHORS� APPOINTMENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""1: THE NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPINAL CORD DISORDERS""; ""History of present illness""; ""Clinical examination""; ""Important paediatric scenarios with myelopathy""; ""Summary""; ""2: IMAGING THE CORD""; ""Imaging techniques""; ""Spinal ultrasound""; ""Spinal MRI""; ""Summary""; ""3: CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF THE SPINAL CORD""; ""Introduction""; ""Evaluation of sensory function""; ""Clinical use of SEPs""; ""Neurophysiological evaluation of spinal motor function: the anterior horn cell""
- Evaluation of corticospinal motor pathways: motor evoked potentials and centralmotor conduction timeSummary
- 4: SPINAL CORD MALFORMATIONS
- Classifications
- Embryology (Afonso and Catala 2003)
- Open dysraphism: MMC
- Occult dysraphism
- Caudal regression syndromes
- Summary
- 5: SPINAL CORD ABSCESS, HAEMORRHAGE, AND TRAUMA
- Spinal cord abscess
- Spinal cord haemorrhage
- Spinal cord trauma in the paediatric population
- 6: TUMOURS OF THE SPINE IN CHILDREN
- Introduction
- Intradural intramedullary tumours
- Intradural extramedullary tumoursExtradural tumours
- Management of spinal tumours
- Summary
- 7: INFLAMMATORY, METABOLIC, VASCULAR, AND DEMYELINATING DISORDERS
- Acute transverse myelitis
- NMO
- Multiple sclerosis
- Radiation myelitis
- Tropical spastic paraparesis and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy
- Human immunodeficiency virus and myelopathy
- Spinal cord ischaemia
- Neurodegenerative, metabolic, and nutritional disorders affecting the spinal cord
- 8: SPECIFIC ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT AND REHABILITATION
- Rehabilitation: general paediatric and adolescent issuesMotor rehabilitation
- Home modifications
- Sensation
- Respiratory complications
- Autonomic disturbances
- Orthopaedic complications
- Spasticity
- Wellness/fitness
- Psychosocial issues
- Scenario 1
- Scenario 2
- Summary
- 9: PROSPECTS FOR SPINAL CORD REPAIR
- Targeting the acute injury phase
- Targeting post-acute events
- Concluding remarks
- COLOUR PLATE SECTION
- INDEX
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