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| 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 |
| 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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in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology > 23-4 (August 1981) . - p.494-504
[article] Children with large heads: a practical approach to diagnosis in 557 children, with special reference to 109 children with megalencephaly [texte imprimé] / 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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Children with large heads: a practical approach to diagnosis in 557 children, with special reference to 109 children with megalencephaly in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 23-4 (August 1981)