Fenichel's Clinical Pediatric Neurology
- 9th Edition - June 21, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: J. Eric Piña-Garza, Kaitlin C. James
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 2 0 1 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 3 4 2 - 1
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Using a practical, easy-to-reference signs and symptoms approach, Fenichel's Clinical Pediatric Neurology, 9th Edition, provides a solid foundation in the diagnosis and management of primary neurologic disorders of childhood while bringing you fully up to date with developments in the field. It offers step-by-step, authoritative guidance that considers each presenting symptom in terms of differential diagnosis and treatment, reflecting real-life patient evaluation and management. Perfect for board exam preparation, office use, or residency reference, this well-organized, revised edition is an ideal introduction to this complex and fast-changing field.
Using a practical, easy-to-reference signs and symptoms approach, Fenichel's Clinical Pediatric Neurology, 9th Edition, provides a solid foundation in the diagnosis and management of primary neurologic disorders of childhood while bringing you fully up to date with developments in the field. It offers step-by-step, authoritative guidance that considers each presenting symptom in terms of differential diagnosis and treatment, reflecting real-life patient evaluation and management. Perfect for board exam preparation, office use, or residency reference, this well-organized, revised edition is an ideal introduction to this complex and fast-changing field.
- Defines age at onset, course of illness, clinical features, and treatment options for each neurological disease, all logically organized by neurological signs and symptoms in a highly templated format
- Brings you up to date with every aspect of the field, with integrated content on new medications, new topics such as neurological complications of COVID in children, and a new chapter on behavioral neurology
- Includes comprehensive coverage of genetics in relation to epilepsy, autism, and many neurometabolic disorders, with up-to-date coverage of genetic testing, diagnosis, and pharmacogenomics
- Features weighted differential diagnosis tables and treatment algorithms that help you quickly identify the more common and most treatable neurological disorders, as well as evaluate and manage the most difficult neurodegenerative disorders, including those caused by inborn errors of metabolism
- Provides helpful boxes that synthesize symptoms and foundational points, an increased number of imaging examples throughout, and more than 300 illustrations, tables, and charts that support and clarify the text
- Shares the knowledge and experience of clinical neurologist and epileptologist, Dr. Kaitlin C. James, and Dr. J. Eric Piña-Garza, a longtime associate and protégé of Dr. Gerald Fenichel
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. Additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Neurologists and pediatric neurology residents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
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- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Paroxysmal Disorders
- Outline
- APPROACH TO PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS
- PAROXYSMAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS OF NEWBORNS
- SEIZURES IN THE NEWBORN
- PAROXYSMAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN LESS THAN 2 YEARS OLD
- EPILEPSIES EXACERBATED BY FEVER
- PAROXYSMAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS OF CHILDHOOD
- MANAGING SEIZURES
- REFERENCES
- 2. Altered States of Consciousness
- Outline
- DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO DELIRIUM
- DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO LETHARGY AND COMA
- HYPOXIA AND ISCHEMIA
- BRAIN DEATH
- INFECTIOUS DISORDERS
- Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
- POSTIMMUNIZATION ENCEPHALOPATHY
- METABOLIC AND SYSTEMIC DISORDERS
- PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
- TOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHIES
- TRAUMA
- REFERENCES
- 3. Headache
- Outline
- APPROACH TO HEADACHE
- MIGRAINE
- CLUSTER HEADACHE
- INDOMETHACIN-RESPONSIVE HEADACHE
- CHRONIC LOW-GRADE NONPROGRESSIVE HEADACHES
- HEADACHES ASSOCIATED WITH DRUGS AND FOODS
- HEADACHE AND SYSTEMIC DISEASE
- PAIN FROM OTHER CRANIAL STRUCTURES
- SEIZURE HEADACHE
- LOW-PRESSURE/SPINAL FLUID LEAK HEADACHE
- REFERENCES
- 4. Increased Intracranial Pressure
- Outline
- PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
- SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS
- MEDICAL TREATMENT
- HYDROCEPHALUS
- INTRACRANIAL ARACHNOID CYSTS
- PERINATAL INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE
- INCREASED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE RELATED TO VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES
- INFECTIOUS DISORDERS
- IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION (PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI)
- REFERENCES
- 5. Psychomotor Delay and Regression
- Outline
- DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY
- TELLING PARENTS BAD NEWS
- Static Encephalopathies
- PROGRESSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHIES WITH ONSET BEFORE AGE 2
- Hexa Disorders
- PROGRESSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHIES WITH ONSET AFTER AGE 2
- REFERENCES
- 6. The Hypotonic Infant
- Outline
- THE APPEARANCE OF HYPOTONIA
- APPROACH TO DIAGNOSIS
- CEREBRAL HYPOTONIA
- SPINAL CORD DISORDERS
- MOTOR UNIT DISORDERS
- REFERENCES
- 7. Flaccid Limb Weakness in Childhood
- Outline
- CLINICAL FEATURES OF NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE
- PROGRESSIVE PROXIMAL WEAKNESS
- PROGRESSIVE DISTAL WEAKNESS
- ACUTE GENERALIZED WEAKNESS
- PERIODIC PARALYSES
- REFERENCES
- 8. Cramps, Muscle Stiffness, and Exercise Intolerance
- Outline
- ABNORMAL MUSCLE ACTIVITY
- DECREASED MUSCLE ENERGY
- MYOPATHIC STIFFNESS AND CRAMPS
- REFERENCES
- 9. Sensory and Autonomic Disturbances
- Outline
- SENSORY SYMPTOMS
- PAINFUL LIMB SYNDROMES
- FAMILIAL EPISODIC PAIN SYNDROMES
- CENTRAL CONGENITAL INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN
- HEREDITARY SENSORY AND AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHIES
- METABOLIC NEUROPATHIES
- Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type I
- SPINAL DISORDERS
- THALAMIC PAIN
- REFERENCES
- 10. Ataxia
- Outline
- ACUTE AND RECURRENT ATAXIAS
- CHRONIC OR PROGRESSIVE ATAXIA
- REFERENCES
- 11. Hemiplegia
- Outline
- HEMIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY
- APPROACH TO ACUTE HEMIPLEGIA IN CHILDREN
- CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE HEMIPLEGIA
- REFERENCES
- 12. Paraplegia and Quadriplegia
- Outline
- APPROACH TO PARAPLEGIA
- SPINAL PARAPLEGIA AND QUADRIPLEGIA
- REFERENCES
- 13. Monoplegia
- Outline
- APPROACH TO MONOPLEGIA
- MONOMELIC AMYOTROPHY (HIRAYAMA DISEASE)
- PLEXOPATHIES
- REFERENCES
- 14. Movement Disorders
- Outline
- CHOREA, TICS, TOURETTE, DYSTONIA, DYSKINESIA, TREMOR
- APPROACH TO THE PATIENT
- TICS AND TOURETTE SYNDROME
- STEREOTYPIES
- CHOREA AND ATHETOSIS
- DYSTONIA
- MIRROR MOVEMENTS
- MYOCLONUS
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- TREMOR
- REFERENCES
- 15. Disorders of Ocular Motility
- Outline
- NONPARALYTIC STRABISMUS
- OPHTHALMOPLEGIA
- NYSTAGMUS
- ACQUIRED NYSTAGMUS
- REFERENCES
- 16. Disorders of the Visual System
- Outline
- ASSESSMENT OF VISUAL ACUITY
- CONGENITAL BLINDNESS
- ACUTE MONOCULAR OR BINOCULAR BLINDNESS
- POSTTRAUMATIC VISION LOSS
- PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF VISION
- HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY
- Wfs1-Spectrum Disorder (Wolfram Syndrome)
- SYNDROMES OF RETINAL DEGENERATION
- DISORDERS OF THE PUPIL
- REFERENCES
- 17. Lower Brainstem and Cranial Nerve Dysfunction
- Outline
- FACIAL WEAKNESS AND DYSPHAGIA
- HEARING IMPAIRMENT AND DEAFNESS
- VERTIGO
- REFERENCES
- 18. Disorders of Cranial Volume and Shape
- Outline
- MEASURING HEAD SIZE
- MACROCEPHALY
- MICROCEPHALY
- ABNORMAL HEAD SHAPE
- REFERENCES
- 19. Behavioral Neurology
- Outline
- DEPRESSION AND SUICIDALITY
- ANXIETY DISORDERS
- OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
- PSYCHOGENIC DISORDERS
- COMMON MEDICATIONS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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- Edition: 9
- Published: June 21, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323932011
- eBook ISBN: 9780323933421
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J. Eric Piña-Garza
Dr. Piña-Garza earned his medical degree from Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico, and worked in Social Service for the Department of Pediatrics at University’s Hospital in Monterrey. He served a rotating internship at University’s Hospital then completed a Pediatric Residency at Children’s Hospital of Austin at Brackenridge. He continued his post-doctoral training at Vanderbilt University as a neurology resident with special qualification in Child Neurology. He became a clinical instructor for the division of Child Neurology and a Neurophysiology/Epilepsy fellow in the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Pediatric Epilepsy, Centennial Children’s Hospital, Department of Neurology, Tri-Star Medical Group Children’s Specialists, USARead Fenichel's Clinical Pediatric Neurology on ScienceDirect