Background Juvenile myasthenia gravis is a major category of neuromuscular junction disorders that shares many pathophysiologic and clinical features with adult autoimmune myasthenia gravis, yet displays distinct demographic patterns, clinical features, and therapeutic challenges. These considerations underscore the need to…
Epidemiology Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) comprises a small but important subset of chronic childhood polyneuropathies. One series identified childhood CIDP in 11/125 (9%) of all children with a chronic polyneuropathy confirmed by sural nerve biopsy. A second series reported…
Introduction This chapter discusses the use and techniques of pediatric electromyography (EMG). In a comprehensive text on neuromuscular disease such as this, targeted towards clinicians in neuromuscular medicine, the intention of this chapter is not to make readers experts in…