Pediatric Neurology: Clinical and Imaging Case Studies is a richly illustrated, case-based resource that explores the complementary roles of neurology and radiology for patient diagnosis and treatment. This unique volume is authored by world-class child neurologists and pediatric neuroradiologists who demonstrate the essential role of interdisciplinary collaboration in clinical care. Expert-selected cases comprise this valuable educational tool and reference text for diverse audiences including primary care physicians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists.
Key Features
- Provides case-based teaching organized by disease type, with multiple conditions discussed in each section
- Introduces each disease as an unknown, progresses through the patient workup, and ends with the final diagnosis
- Highlights clinical and imaging pearls, pitfalls, and differential diagnoses for every case
- Emphasizes guidelines for radiologic interpretation across a diverse array of pediatric neurologic disorders
- Over 1,000 images represent the collective knowledge and expertise of internationally recognized neurologists and neuroradiologists
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Author Information
By Hugo A. Arroyo, Pediatric Neurology, Honorary Consultant. Former Head Pediatric Neurology Department, Hospital de Pediatría Prof Dr. Juan P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Alcy R. Torres, Director Pediatric Brain Injury Program, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Boston University Chovanian and Avedisian School of Medicine , Boston, MA, USA; Jorge Vidaurre; Carlos Rugilo, Hospital de Pediatria J P Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Mai-Lan Ho, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Department of Radiology, Columbus, Ohio, USA
SECTION 1 Headache
1. When Sinuses Are the Cause of a Headache
2. The Brain Also Suffers With Obesity
3. When the Hindbrain Causes Headache
4. The Brain Also Faints
5. The Worst Headache of My Life
6. Not All Hemiparesis Is a Stroke
7. Children Can Also Have Microstrokes
SECTION 2 Neonatal Neurology
8. Full-Term Infant With Seizure
9. Preterm Infant With Ventricular Dilation
10. Infants Can Have Strokes, Too
11. Preterm Infant With Hypotonia
SECTION 3 Cerebral Palsy
12. My Baby Is Left-Handed
13. The Infant With Assymetric Posture
14. Return to the Perinatal History
15. Pay Attention to Preterm Babies
SECTION 4 Epilepsy
16. Ironing Out the Cause of Seizures
17. Long-Term Epilepsy-Associated Tumors
18. Focus on the Etiology
19. Skin Is the Window to the Brain
20. Secondary Seizures
SECTION 5 CNS Vascular Disease
21. Postinfectious Stroke
22. Hidden Impact
23. From Heart to Brain
24. Assymetric Worsening
25. Remember the Veins
26. Boy in the Barrel
27. High Flow, High Pain
SECTION 6 Neurodegenerative Diseases
28. A Child Who Drops Very Quickly in His School Performance
29. Head Circumference Is Increasing While the Child Is Deteriorating
30. The Infant Who Loses Ambulation
31. Child With Nystagmus, Dystonia, and Developmental Failure
32. Infant With Brittle Hair, Seizures, and Neurological Deterioration
SECTION 7 Neurometabolic Disorders
33. Widened Sylvian Fissures and Basal Ganglia
34. Intramyelinic Edema of Infancy
35. Stroke-Like Episodes
36. Severe Neonatal Communicating Hydrocephalus
SECTION 8 Acquired Nervous System Infection
37. Limbic Encephalitis: A Double Hit
38. Complications of the Pandemic
39. Parasites in the Brain
40. Endemic Infection: Lying in Wait
41. Cerebral Malaria
SECTION 9 Pediatric Brain Tumors
42. Posterior Fossa Emergency
43. Sticky in the Sella
44. Midline Menace
45. Temporal Trouble
46. Jumping into Orbit
SECTION 10 Other Autoimmune Disorders
47. Insult to the Deep Grey Nuclei
48. Inflammatory Emesis
49. Postinfectious Ataxia
50. Progressive Hemiseizures
SECTION 11 Demyelinating Diseases of the CNS
51. When the Central Nervous System Loses Color
52. Altered Mentation and Myelitis
53. When the Spinal Cord Takes Off Its Coat
54. When Emotional Liability Isn’t Psychiatric
55. Recurrent Discoordination
SECTION 12 Neurocutaneous Syndromes
56. Spots Here, There, and Everywhere
57. Café au Lait: Tip of the Iceberg
58. Mysteries of the Hairless Plaque
59. Port-Wine and the Brain
SECTION 13 Traumatic Brain Injury
60. Buckle Up
61. The Eyes Have It
62. Severe TBI: What Is the Outlook
63. Moderate TBI: How to Tell
64. Penetrating Injury
65. Pedestrian Struck
66. The Dreaded Epidural
67. Spectrum of Subdurals
68. The Killer Bed
SECTION 14 Movement Disorders and Ataxia
69. Ataxic and Metallic
70. Yellow and Drooling
71. Acute Hemichorea and More
72. Eye of the Tiger
73. Boxed In
SECTION 15 Neurologic Complications of Systemic Diseases
74. White Matter Climate Change
75. When the Kidneys and Brain Cry
76. Brain Changes Under Pressure
77. Tell Me How You Eat and I Will Tell You How You Walk
78. Sickle Cell Disease, Brain, Skull, and Bones