Building on his earlier single-authored text, James Gage has recruited a team of experts from the range of disciplines involved in managing gait problems in cerebral palsy to make this book a state-of-the art resource. They examine the way the brain controls locomotion and the types of brain pathology present in cerebral palsy. Current treatment modalities and treatments of specific gait problems are discussed in detail, including modern computerized gait analysis and methods of assessing the child and evaluating treatment outcomes. An attached CD-ROM gives pre- and post-treatment examples and illustrates visually the process of gait analysis. Clinicians, therapists and bioengineers will find this a uniquely useful resource.
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Authors' Appointments.SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION, AND OVERVIEW OF DIAGNOSIS, BIOLOGY AND THERAPY.1.INTRODUCTION: Eddy Estlin (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital) and Stephen Lowis (The Hopsital for Sick Children).2.THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PAEDIATRIC CNS TUMOURS: GA Amos Burke (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust).3.PAEDIATRIC CNS TUMOURS: NEUROIMAGING: Shelley Renowden (Frenchay Hospital).4.PATHOLOGY AND MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD CNS TUMOuRS: Lucy B Rorke-Adams (University of Pennsylvania) and Jaclyn A Biegel (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia).5.MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO THE UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD CNS TUMOuRS: Richard J Gilbertson (St Jude Children's Research Hospital).6.SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CNS TUMOURS IN THE PAEDIATRIC POPULATION: Jerard Ross (Royal Hospital for Sick Children) and John Thorne (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital).7.GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF RADIOTHERAPY: Eddy Estlin (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital) and Stephen Lowis (The Hospital for Sick Children).8.GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHEMOTHERAPY: Eddy Estlin (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital).9.MANAGEMENT OF COMPLICATIONS AT PRESENTATION FOR CHILDREN WITH CNS TUMOURS: Stephen Lowis (The Hospital for Sick Children).SECTION TWO: CNS TUMOURS OF CHILDHOOD.10.LOW-GRADE AND HIGH-GRADE ASTROCYTOMA: Eddy Estlin (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital) and Stephen Lowis (The Hospital for Sick Children).11.EPENDYMOMA: Ute Bartels (Hospital for Sick Children), Douglas J Hyder (Hospital for Sick Children), Annie Huang (Hospital for Sick Children) and Eric Bouffet (Hospital for Sick Children).12.BRAINSTEM TUMOURS: Carolyn R Freeman (McGill University) and Jean-Pierre Farmer (McGill University).13.PRIMITIVE NEUROECTODERMAL TUMOURS: Stephen Lowis (The Hospital for Sick Children).14.INTRACRANIAL GERM CELL TUMOURS: Susanne J Rogers (Institute of Cancer Research) and Frank H Saran (Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust).15.CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA AND CARCINOMA: Stephen Lowis (The Hospital for Sick Children).16.CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA: Eddy Estlin (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital).17.MIXED NEURONAL TUMOURS: Eddy Estlin (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital).18.SPINAL CORD TUMOURS IN CHILDREN: Douglas J Hyder (Hospital for Sick Children), Peter B Dirks (Hospital for Sick Children), Ute Bartels (Hospital for Sick Children) and Eric Bouffet (Hospital for Sick Children).19.METASTATIC DISEASE AFFECTING THE CNS: Stephen Lowis (The Hospital for Sick Children).SECTION THREE: LATE EFFECTS, REHABILITATION AND PALLIATIVE CARE.20.LATE EFFECTS OF CNS TUMOURS: Adam Glaser (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) and Gary Butler (University of Reading).21.AN OVERVIEW OF CEREBRAL FUNCTIONING AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE DEVELOPING BRAIN: Andrew Curran (Alder Hey Children's Hospital).22.PALLIATIVE CARE: Erica Mackie (Southampton General Hospital).SECTION FOUR: SUMMARY.23.CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
