Volume 2, Number 3, Year 2004

Contents

EDITORIALS
117. Viruses and epidemic “brain attacks”: new agents, new challenges
Hussain IHM Ismail

121. Some aspects about the clinical and pathogenetic characteristics of the presumed persistent measles  infections: SSPE and MINE
Paul Richard Dyken

REVIEW ARTICLE
125. Microbiology and management of brain abscess in children
Itzhak Brook
  

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
131. Role of Chandipura virus in an “epidemic brain attack” in Andhra Pradesh, India
P. Nagabhushana Rao, P. Anil Kumar, T. Ananth Rao, Y. Ashutosh Prasad, C. Joga Rao,
P. Lakshmi Rajyam, M. M. V. Prasada Sarma, G. Ashok
   

145. Echocardiographic evaluation in Rett children with cardiac dysautonomia
 Francesca Guideri, Maurizio Acampa, Maria Rosaria Matera, Michele Zappella, Yusuf Hayek
  

149. A report on early neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely low birth weight infants managed
on early nasal continuous positive airway pressure
An N. Massaro, Penny Glass, Hany Aly
  

153. Hypersensitivity reactions to carboplatin in children with low-grade gliomas
Alice Wiesner, Franziska Zucol, Roger P. Lauener, Michael A. Grotzer
  

CASE REPORTS
159. Landau-Kleffner syndrome evolving to electrical status epilepticus: a case report illustrating
clinical heterogeniety
Jayantee Kalita, Mamta B. Singh, Usha K. Misra, Birendra K. Das
  

163. Cerebellar dermoid cysts with hydrocephalus
Bayram Çırak, Nejmi Kıymaz, Memduh Kerman
  

167. Temporary central hypoventilation following craniopharyngioma resection
Sean M. Lew
  

171. Cerebral hemiatrophy associated with hematological and developmental disorders
Özkan Ünal, Hüseyin Çaksen, Nejmi Kıymaz, İmdat Dilek, Mustafa Kayan, Ömer Anlar
  

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
175. Pyridoxine-dependent seizures: an atypical case
Rajesh RamachandranNair, Vellani T. Ajithkumar