Pediatric Neurology Part I: Chapter 3. Pediatric neurology: the diagnostic process

Pediatric Neurology Part I: Chapter 3. Pediatric neurology: the diagnostic process
ISBN-10
0128077085
ISBN-13
9780128077085
Series
Pediatric Neurology Part I
Category
Medical
Pages
892
Language
English
Published
2013-04-24
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Author
Brian G.R. Neville

Description

Pediatric neurology comprises a very large of number of conditions exhibiting symptoms and signs in several functional domains arising from damage and dysfunction to the developing nervous system. The diagnostic process involves ensuring that data from all possible domains are sought including those that are unaffected. The subsequent analysis involves fitting these data into patterns of classical natural history and rigorous investigation of the aspects that do not appear to fit. There may be a pattern of illness that is immediately recognized or something that is a fairly close fit. However, the aim is to develop a pathogenic sequence for the condition particularly so that conditions that have been lumped together for convenience are separated into distinct disease entities. The major presentations of pediatric neurology of fixed central motor impairments (the cerebral palsies), the epilepsies, and the progressive degenerative diseases are in the process of being split into such pathogenic sequences so that definitive treatments and possible primary prevention can be added to aims of simple diagnostic recognition. Much of this is at an early stage and pediatric neurology is still a young and fast developing specialty.

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