Volume 2, Number 1, Year 2004

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL
1 Infantile spasm: an overview
W. Donald Shields

REVIEW ARTICLES
3 The “medical” investigation of specific learning disorders
Neil Gordon
  

9 Febrile convulsion: review and update
Azhar Daoud
  

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
15 Infantile spasms in Down syndrome: a good response to vitamin B6
Roberto H. Caraballo, Ricardo O. Cersósimo, Fernanda Garro, Karina Kesler, Natalio Fejerman
  

21 Split cord malformation in children undergoing neurosurgical intervetion in India: a descriptive study
Raj Kumar, Vinita Singh, Satya Narayan Singh
  

29 MRI evaluation of venous abnormalities in children with Sturge-Weber syndrome
Simone Mandelstam, Savvas Andronikou
  

33 Joubert syndrome: accuracy of neuro-radiological findings
Sattam S. Lingawi, Nahla A. Arab, Yasser Ragab Fahmy
  

CASE REPORTS
39 Clinicopathological and genetic study in cerebral aspergillosis and leukemic infitration in ALL
Raj Kumar, Vinita Singh, Minal Vaish, Lily Pal, Balraj Mittal
  

45 A case of Bartter’s syndrome associated with nephrocalcinosis presenting with tetany
Bülent Ataş, Hüseyin Çaksen, Oğuz Tuncer, Ercan Kırımi, Şükrü Arslan, Mehmet Erol,
Sevil Arı Yuca
  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
49 Opisthotonos: a newly recognized side effect of midazolam
Deniz Yılmaz, Tansu Sipahi

51 Opisthotonos and midazolam
Roshan Koul, Javed Hashim, Masod Ahmed