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John Wiley Disorders Of The Spinal Cord In Children by Pike
Covering the range of pediatric spinal cord disease, itsclinical assessment, appropriate investigation, its medical andneurosurgical management and neuro-rehabilitation. Spinal cord disorders have tended to be approached as adjuncts todisorders of the paediatric brain or peripheral nervous system.This is partly a function of numbers - specifically spinalpathologies being less frequent than those of the brain and theperipheral neuromuscular system, partly a function of therelatively limited investigation techniques available before theadvent of MRI and, at least to some degree, it is because theclinical evaluation of the spinal cord in young children isdifficult and may be overshadowed by the manifestations ofaccompanying brain and peripheral neuromuscularsymptomatology. It is likely that the role of the cord, inconditions ranging from neonatal neurological injury to shakenimpact syndrome and in inflammatory and neurometabolic disordersand beyond, will continue to become more evident over comingyears.Readership· Pediatric neurologists· Pediatric neurosurgeons· Pediatric oncologists· Pediatric neuroradiologists and neurophysiologists· Rehabilitation physicians and therapists.