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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
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Clinics in developmental medicine |
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Clinics in developmental medicine
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""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"" |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 -- Advert |
| Summary |
Covering the range of pediatric spinal cord disease, its clinical assessment, appropriate investigation, its medical and neurosurgical management and neuro-rehabilitation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Spinal cord -- Abnormalities.
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Spinal cord -- Diseases.
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Children.
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Spinal Cord Diseases
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Children
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Spinal cord -- Abnormalities
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Spinal cord -- Diseases
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pike, Michael.
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| ISBN |
9781908316844 |
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1908316845 |
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