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INTRODUCTION This chapter is focused on injuries of extracranial, cranial, intracranial, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system structures. In particular, the emphasis is on those disorders that appear to be related primarily to mechanical trauma. Adverse mechanical events occur principally…
INTRODUCTION The neurological evaluation of the newborn comprises, as it does at other ages in pediatric medicine, the history, physical examination, and appropriate specialized studies. Appropriate neurodevelopmental follow-up is the critical next step in the neurological evaluation. The history is…
Case description ( Fig. 14.1 ) The patient was born at 40 weeks’ gestation and weighed 3150 g at birth. An emergency cesarean section was performed for suspected fetal compromise with bradycardia on the cardiotocogram because of a nuchal cord.…