Summary: | A text designed for easy use in emergency and general medical situations, revised and updated to reflect numerous advances in child neurology and medicine in general. A separate section on spinal cord disorders greatly expands the previous chapter on myelomeningocele. It includes an important discussion on spinal cord trauma and other causes of paraplegia. A separate chapter on psychiatric emergencies possibly presenting with neurologic signs or symptoms has been added. This chapter includes discussions of now commonly used MRI as well as CT and ultrasound. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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