Approach to acute ataxia in childhood: Diagnosis and evaluation

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 153-159

  Sivaswamy, Lalitha ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; COCAINE; CYTARABINE; DIAMORPHINE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PHENCYCLIDINE; PHENYTOIN; TOLUENE;

ACUTE DISSEMINATED ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; AGITATION; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASILAR TYPE MIGRAINE; BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCUSSION; DYSARTHRIA; EDEMA; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HEAD INJURY; HEREDITARY ATAXIA; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LABYRINTHITIS; MIGRAINE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPSOCLONUS MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; PHOTOPHOBIA; PLEOCYTOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; SCINTIGRAPHY; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; VASCULITIS; VASOSPASM; VERTIGO; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ATAXIA; BRAIN; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INFANT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; ATAXIA; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 84898851035     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20140325-13     Document Type: Article

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