Pediatric Neurology and Neuroradiology Cerebral and Cranial Diseases

This wonderful, profusely illustrated book provides a concise and thoughtful review of all the important diseases of the child's brain. The lesions are well organized into logical categories that help the reader to remember the information conveyed. The important features of each entity are dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Diebler, Claus, Dulac, Olivier (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 3 Inherited Metabolic Diseases
  • 3.1 Diseases with Basal Ganglia Lesions
  • 3.2 Poliodystrophies
  • 3.3 Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy
  • 3.4 Lafora’s Disease
  • 3.5 Leukodystrophies
  • 3.6 Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
  • 3.7 Mucopolysaccharidosis
  • 3.8 Ataxia-Telangiectasia
  • 4 Infectious Diseases of the Central Nervous System
  • Bacterial Infections
  • 4.1 Neonatal Leptomeningitis
  • 4.2 Bacterial Leptomeningitis in Infancy and Childhood
  • 4.3 Intracranial Tuberculosis
  • 4.4 Intracranial Suppuration
  • Viral Infections and Diseases of Presumed Viral Origin
  • 4.5 Viral Encephalitis
  • Parasitic Diseases
  • 4.6 Toxoplasmosis
  • 4.7 Cerebral Hydatid Cyst
  • 4.8 Cysticercosis
  • 5 Vascular Disorders
  • 5.1 Prenatal and Perinatal Cerebral Lesions of Circulatory Origin
  • 5.2 Postnatal Vascular Obstruction
  • 5.3 Cranial and Cerebral Vascular Malformations
  • 6Intracranial Tumors
  • 6.1 Posterior Fossa Tumors
  • 6.2 Tumors of the Region of the Third Ventricle and the Region of the Sella Turcica
  • 6.3 Tumors of the Cerebral Hemispheres
  • 6.4 Orbital Tumors
  • 7 Cranial Trauma
  • 7.1 Physiopathology of the Cerebral Lesions
  • 7.2 Clinical and Radiologic Aspects of Head Trauma in Infancy and Childhood
  • 8 Miscellaneous
  • 8.1 Osseous Dysplasias
  • 8.2 Histiocytosis X
  • 8.3 Iatrogenic Diseases
  • 8.4 Radionecrosis
  • 8.5 Review of Various Symptoms and Syndromes in Infancy and Childhood
  • 1 Cerebral and Cranial Malformations
  • 1.1 Malformations of the Corpus Callosum
  • 1.2 Prosencephaly: Arhinencephaly
  • 1.3 Absence of the Septum Pellucidum
  • 1.4 Malformations of the Cerebral Cortex
  • 1.5 Congenital Obstruction of the Aqueduct of Sylvius
  • 1.6 Cleland-Chiari Malformation
  • 1.7 Dandy-Walker Syndrome
  • 1.8 Cerebellar Hypoplasia
  • 1.9 Cephaloceles
  • 1.10 Malformative Intracranial Cysts
  • 1.11 Hamartoma of the Tuber Cinereum
  • 1.12 Benign External Hydrocephalus
  • 1.13 Primary Megalencephaly
  • 2 Neurocutaneous Syndromes
  • 2.1 Neurofibromatosis
  • 2.2 Tuberous Sclerosis
  • 2.3 Sturge-Weber Syndrome
  • 2.4 Incontinentia Pigmenti
  • 2.5 Nevus Linearis Sebaceus Syndrome
  • 2.6 Encephalocraniocutaneous Lipomatosis
  • 2.7 Hypomelanosis of Itô (Incontinentia Pigmenti Achromians)
  • 2.8 Neurocutaneous Melanosis
  • 2.9 Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome
  • 2.10 Facial Nevi Associated with Anomalous Venous Return and Hydrocephalus