Pediatric Clinical Electromyography

Part 1 Approach to the paediatric patient: maturation factors; technical factors with infantile nerve conduction studies; technical factors with infantile needle electromyography. Part 2 Electromyographic evaluation of the floppy infant: spinal muscular atrophy I - Wednig-Hoffmann disease; peripheral neuropathies; neuromuscular junction - presynaptic defects, postsynaptic defects; neonatal myopathies; benign congenital hypotonia; arthrogryposis multiplex congenita; overview of evaluation of the floppy infant. Part 3 Spinal muscular atrophies of childhood and adolescence: childhood bulbar paralysis (Fazio-Londe's disease); Kugelberg-Welander disease - spinal muscular atrophy III; focal amyotrophies; "Poliomyelitis" - mimic with asthma; juvenile motor neuron disease - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; paraneoplastic motor neuron disease; hexosaminidase deficiency and juvenile motor neuron disease; infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy; primary lateral sclerosis. Part 4 Nerve root disease: cervical root disease; lumbosacral root disease. Part 5 Plexus lesions: brachial plexopathies; lubosacral plexopathies. Part 6 Mononeuropathies: median nerve; ulnar nerve; radial nerve; long thoracic nerve; musculocutaneous nerve; suprascapular nerve; femoral nerve; sciatic nerve; peroneal nerve; tibial nerve. Part 7 Paediatric polyneuropathies: introduction; hereditary neuropathies; acquired demyelinating polyneuropathies; recurrent childhood neuropathies; neuropathies in childhood systemic diseases; toxic neuropathies of childhood; postvaccinal peripheral neuropathy; miscellaneous childhood neuropathies. Part 8 Neuromuscular transmission disorders in childhood: technical aspects of investigation; presynaptic defects; postsynaptic defects. Part 9 Myopathies: muscular dystrophies; myotonia congenita; monomelic hypertrophy and myopathy; inflammatory myopathies; periodic paralysis; myoglobinuria or rhabdomyolysis; lipid storage disease; glycogen storage disease; mitochondrial myopathies; endocrine myopathies; toxic myopathies; malignant hyperthermia.