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Table of Contents

Volume 6, Number 4, Year 2008

REVIEW ARTICLE
Perinatal ventriculomegaly
Sahar M. A. Hassanein, Husein Moharram, Ahmed Mohamed Monib, Ahmed R. M. R .A. Ramy, Walid Abdel Ghany

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Total amylase, pancreatic amylase and lipase levels in children with epilepsy on valproic acid
Hoda Y. Tomoum, Rasha H. Aly, Nermine H. Mahmoud, Haidy M. El Razky

Adjunctive oral electrolyte therapy for uncontrolled seizures in children
Juan G. Ochoa, Walter Gonzalez

Comparison of efficacy and safety of divalproex sodium extended release tablets with sodium valproate for treatment of seizure disorder in children
Vandana Jain, Veena Kalra, Jitendra Kumar Sahu

Flash VEP findings in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy: Correlation with clinicoradiological parameters
Ethymia Vargiami, Dimitrios I. Zafeiriou, Nikolaos Kozeis, Athina Ververi,
Eletherios Kontopoulos, Ioannis Mavromatis, Ioannis Tsikoulas

Febrile seizures: Factors effecting risk of recurrence
Ali Reza Moayedi, S. Tasnim Eghbal Eftekhaari

Caregivers or care providers: Who should assess motor function in cerebral palsy?
Talhatu K. Hamzat, Margaret B. Fatudimu

Evaluation of short-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in the premature patients with periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage
Meral Bayram, Ertan Kayserili, Hasan Ağın, Erhan Bayram, Aycan Ünalp

CASE REPORTS
D-bifunctional protein deficiency, a novel mutation
Rania E. Dib, Pascale Karam, Mohamad. A. Mikati, Steven Steinberg,
Mohamad Zouhair Habbal

Progressive subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: A study of two cases with epileptic spasms
Valeria Muro, Young Lee, Ricardo Cersósimo, Roberto Caraballo

Sinus pericranii: Diagnosis with contrast enhanced MRI venography
İsa Özyılmaz, Safa Barış, Mine Özdil, Sait Albayram

Juvenile dermatomysositis complicated by calcinosis univeralis: Importance of early disease recognition
Reem Abdwani, Amna Al-Futaisi, Rajeev Jain, Roshan Koul

Acute lumbar intervertebral disc herniation occurring after somersault in a girl
Nurullah Yuceer, Nuri Arda

Tick paralysis: Presentation as a pure cerebellar syndrome
Raed Alroughani, Jonathan Guilfoyle, Mary B. Connolly

Klippel-Feil syndrome with upper cervical intradural arachnoid cyst
Bekir Akgün, Metin Kaplan, Hanefi Yıldırım

Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome: A rare complication of hypertensive encephalopathy in children
Olfa Bouyahia, Manel Bellalah, Narjess Amdouni, Lamia Gharsallah, Sonia Mrad Mazigh,
Ibtissem Bellagah, Samir Boukthir, Azza El Gharbi Sammoud

Conservative management of Rasmussen’s encephalitis in a Nigerian girl
Mayowa Ojo Owolabi, Godwin Ogbole, Ike Lagunju

NEUROIMAGE OF THE MONTH
A 7-year-old child with moyamoya disease and tonic clonic seizures
Suhil A. Choh, Naseer A. Choh, Romi Yousuf, Majid Jehangir