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Pediatric Brain Tumor

[…] of mortality from childhood cancer, accounting for 25% of all cancer deaths in children. More than 4,000 pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors are diagnosed annually.3 Between 2016 and 2020 in children (age 0-14 years) and adolescents (age 15-19 years), […]

Communication Issues in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

[…] a long-term care center, and as a subacute skilled nursing facility (SNF). In an ethnographic study at a single inpatient spinal cord rehabilitation care unit in Canada, the authors concluded that the physical layout of the unit influenced the quality […]

Critical Illness Myopathy

[…] usually normal.12,20 Imaging Careful neuraxial imaging is often necessary to rule out other possibilities of weakness, such as stroke or spinal cord infarct, especially when patients are non-communicative. Magnetic resonance imaging of muscle tissue using a myositis protocol can show […]

Functional Neurological Disorders

[…] minutes after a seizure is elevated after organic, but not after nonepileptic seizures. Imaging Normal imaging of the brain and spinal cord can help eliminate organic conditions or developing pathology, such as multiple sclerosis/neoplasm. Supplemental assessment tools Standardized health status […]