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inDevelopmental Medicine & Child Neurology > 23-4 (August 1981) . - p.494-504

Titre :	Children with large heads: a practical approach to diagnosis in 557 children, with special reference to 109 children with megalencephaly
Type de document :	Texte imprimé et/ou numérique
Auteurs :	John LORBER, Auteur ; Betty L. PRIESTLEY, Auteur
Année de publication :	1981
Article en page(s) :	p.494-504
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	Among 557 children who presented a diagnostic problem of a large head, 109 had megalencephaly as the primary diagnosis. A clinical approach to the differentiation of this numerically important group from the various other causes of large head is outlined. The group is characterised by a familial incidence of large head in at least 50 per cent of cases; a male to female preponderance of four to one; an above-normal rate of head growth in 80 per cent of the children in the first four months after birth, and in a further 12 per cent in late infancy. The vast majority of these children were normal. Only seven children were retarded, and they also had a variety of neurological and other somatic abnormalities.
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[article] Children with large heads: a practical approach to diagnosis in 557 children, with special reference to 109 children with megalencephaly [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / John LORBER, Auteur ; Betty L. PRIESTLEY, Auteur . - 1981 . - p.494-504.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology > 23-4 (August 1981) . - p.494-504

Index. décimale :	PER Périodiques
Résumé :	Among 557 children who presented a diagnostic problem of a large head, 109 had megalencephaly as the primary diagnosis. A clinical approach to the differentiation of this numerically important group from the various other causes of large head is outlined. The group is characterised by a familial incidence of large head in at least 50 per cent of cases; a male to female preponderance of four to one; an above-normal rate of head growth in 80 per cent of the children in the first four months after birth, and in a further 12 per cent in late infancy. The vast majority of these children were normal. Only seven children were retarded, and they also had a variety of neurological and other somatic abnormalities.
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