Pediatric Collections: Neurology Cases: Case Reports from Pediatrics in Review - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610027736 ISBN 13: 9781610027731

Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2024

Synopsis

Hone your clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills with a new series of case-based topic-specific studies.  

This compilation of twenty neurology-related cases includes presenting clinical manifestations and a discussion of the broad range of possible diagnoses, with a reveal of the actual diagnosis at the end. Does this child have a classic presentation of a rare condition or an atypical presentation of a common diagnosis? Does the patient have a primary neurological condition or a neurological manifestation of a systemic disease? Several patients in this collection presented with ataxia, but their final diagnoses range from the unsurprising cerebellar tumor to uncommon conditions like heavy metal poisoning and rare genetic disorders. Does the child with diffuse weakness have a classic condition such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, a vitamin deficiency, one of the periodic paralyses, or an autoimmune disorder such as myasthenia gravis? Cases also include relatively new conditions such as autoimmune encephalitis or genetic disorders but remind us not to overlook well-known but now uncommon conditions like vitamin deficiencies or remote neurological dysfunction due to cancer in another organ.
 

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The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 67,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP is the largest pediatric publisher in the world, with a diverse list of resources that includes essential clinical and practice management titles and award-winning books for parents.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610027736
• ISBN 13: 9781610027731
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: American Academy Of Pediatrics (AAP)