It is apposite as we approach the third millennium, and celebrate the beginning of a third century of medical care in the Royal Victoria Hospital, that we consider the place of the "third phase of medical care" both now and in the future. This was the term applied by Howard A. Rusk to rehabilitation in the period immediately following the Second World War'. Rusk is regarded as the pioneer of me...

The huge complexity and variety of deficits in children, their continuous development, and co-operation simultaneously with children and their parents make clinical practice in pediatric neurorehabilitation particularly challenging. Thus scientists and clinicians still look for newer, more efficient diagnostic and therapeutic tools. One of them is robot-mediated pediatric neurorehabilitation. H...

central venous catheter (cvc) insertion is a practical way to assess patients hemodynamic specially in cardiovascular surgery but this relatively simple junior level procedure is not risk free and its common reported complications include; pneumothorax, hydrothorax, hemothorax, local hematoma, cardiac tamponade, vascular injury, thrombosis, embolism, and catheter disruption. here in this articl...

results of a seven year (april 1985 to march 1992) prospoective study of bacterial meningitis in 189 infants and children admitted to our center indicate that: 1) tiie gram-negative bacilli, especially klebsiella species, are the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in neonates and young infants (

introduction: glutaric academia type i is a metabolic disorder that is caused due to deficiency of glutaryl-coa dehydrogenase. macrocephaly is a common sign in ga1, although many infants usually appear healthy at birth.   case report a 5.5 year old boy with ga1was admitted to nicu. chief compliance of patient for hospitalization was pneumonia and sepsis and he was intubated and mechanically ven...

abstract [1]   background and objective: the recent studies showed that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and neurological soft signs in aggressive persons and murderers are more than general populations. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of prisoners’ neurological soft signs (nss) and its association with crime subgroups in rudsar prison. methods: in a cross sectional ...

how to cite this article: ashrafi mr, tavasoli ar. how we can put forward the diagnosis of npc disease: suspicion index. iran j child neu rol. 2015 autumn;9:4(suppl.1): 2-4. pls see pdf.

how to cite this article: alavi s. paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes in children: a review article. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3): 6- 14. objective paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (pns) were initially defined as neurological syndromes with unknown etiology that often associate with cancer. this broad definition may lead to misconception that any neurological syndrome, which coi...