Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
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To assess the correlation between the position of the intrathecal baclofen therapy catheter with the clinical outcome and response to the spasticity. ⋯ In our series, there was no statistically significant correlation between the position of the intrathecal catheter and the clinical response to the spasticity.
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Several case reports have presented various neurological complications caused by lightning. However, there was no report related to cerebral salt wasting caused by lightning injury. We described a patient with lightning strike, who was subsequently diagnosed with cerebral salt wasting.
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The objectives were to study the short and longitudinal changes in the cognitive skills of children with intractable epilepsy after hemispheric/sub-hemispheric epilepsy surgery. ⋯ There are short- and long-term gains in the cognitive skills of children with intractable epilepsy after hemispherotomy and posterior quadrantectomy that was better in those patients with acquired diseases. Age of seizure onset and duration of seizures prior to surgery were independent variables that predicted the postoperative outcome.