Volume 2, Number 4, Year 2004

Contents

EDITORIAL
177. Intractable or refractory epilepsy
Neil Gordon

REVIEW ARTICLES
179. Neurological, genetic and epigenetic features of Rett syndrome
Svetlana G. Vorsanova, Ivan Y. Iourov, Yuri B. Yurov
  

191. New trends in neonatal seizures
Alberto Verrotti, Giuseppe Latini, Paola Cicioni, Claudio De Felice
  

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
199. Valproic acid use in pediatric partial epilepsy after initial medication failure
Russell P. Saneto, Prakash Kotagal, A. David Rothner, Jill Baker, Laura L. Kotagal
  

 205. Hereditary neuropathies with self-mutilation
Natan Gadoth, Eliyah Mass
  

213. Peripheral neuropathy in merosin-negative congenital muscular dystrophy
H. Jacobus Gilhuis, Oebele F. Brouwer, Aad Verrips, Machiel J. Zwarts
  

219. Absence of cytomegalovirus infection in children with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
and distal sensory polyneuropathy
Alexandra P. de Q. C. Araújo, Suzie Couglan, William W. Hall
  

CASE REPORTS
225. Macrophagic myofasciitis in a 3-month-old child
Mehar C. Sharma, Anibal Prentice, Peter F. Schmidt, Naresh Sharma, Hans H. Goebel
  

231. Hyponatremia as a cause of prolonged seizures in a child with sickle cell anemia
Tanıl Kendirli, Özlem Ünal, Talia İleri, Mehmet Ertem, Natalia Sphakova, Gülhis Deda,       Mesiha Ekim
  

235. Spinal intradural arachnoid cyst with spinal dysraphism
Kadir Kotil, Mustafa Ali Akçetin, Necmettin Güzel, Turgay Bilge
  

241. Anal protrusion of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt catheter: report of two infants
Nebi Yılmaz, Nejmi Kıymaz, Cahide Yılmaz, Hüseyin Çaksen, Sevil Arı Yuca
  

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
245. Acute peripheral facial palsy during chickenpox in a child
Ender Ödemiş, Sadi Türkay, Ayşe Tunca, Ahmet Karadağ