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This book describes the results of a study of children suffering from cerebral palsy (CP) born between 1938 and 1953 who were living in Edinburgh. Its aims were to ascertain the prevalence of CP in Edinburgh and to study its causes and its effects on patients and their families. During the investigation it became increasingly apparent that the categories which then comprised CP did not allow for the accurate classification of patients by neurological findings. Gradually a new classification of CP by neurological findings was evolved. This is what the book describes. This is a new addition to the MacKeith Press series, Classics in Developmental Medicine. It was first published in 1964. Ingram was an eminent paediatric neurologist when paediatric neurology was not an established specialty. He was a widely published innovator in the field. Each year, the European Academy of Childhood Disability presents a lecture named in his honour.

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Author:   Thomas Theodore Scott Ingram ,  Mac Keith Press
Publisher:   Mac Keith Press
Imprint:   Mac Keith Press
ISBN:  

9781898683421

ISBN 10:   1898683425
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The definition and classification of cerebral palsy; 2. The causes of congenital hemiplegia; 3. The causes of acquired hemiplegia; 4. Aetiological studies of patients suffering from hemiplegia; 5. The birth histories of patients suffering from hemiplegia; 6. Aetiological studies of hemiplegia of unknown origin; 7. Aetiological studies in 33 patients suffering from acquired hemiplegia; 8. Clinical findings in hemiplegia in childhood; 9. The literature on bilateral hemiplegia; 10. The literature on diplegic paralysis; 11. Aetiological studies in 79 patients suffering from diplegia; 12. The clinical findings in 79 patients suffering from diplegia; 13. Review of the literature on ataxia and ataxic diplegia; 14. Patients with ataxic diplegia; 15. Patients with ataxia; 16. The literature on dyskinesia in childhood; 17. Patients with dyskinesia; 18. Patients with other forms of cerebral palsy; 19. The prevalence of cerebral palsy amongst children in the city of Edinburgh and the problem of cerebral palsy in the community; 20. Social conditions of patients suffering from cerebral palsy; 21. Birth injury. The causes of hypoxic, traumatic and toxic damage in the infant; 22. The dangers of abnormalities of pregnancy, labour and delivery in the patients suffering from cerebral palsy in the present series; 23. Review of the literature on developmental malformation as a cause of cerebral palsy; 24. A study of the importance of developmental malformation amongst patients suffering from congenital cerebral palsy in the present series; 25. The fate of patients ten years later - I; 26. The fate of patients ten years later - II; Bibliography; Index.

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