2024 Volume 40 Issue 1 Pages 2-9
In recent years, there have been remarkable technological advances in imaging and molecular biology that have permitted definitive diagnoses in cases that were previously undiagnosable. This has been accompanied by the emergence of new disease concepts that integrate multiple diseases. Furthermore, new treatments have been developed for diseases for which there was no effective treatment, and prognoses have greatly improved. However, even in this era, medical interviews and physical examinations remain extremely important in medical practice.
The field of pediatric neurology is based on neurological symptomatology, as well as factors such as growth and development. Although many patients may be uncooperative in medical examinations and insufficient neurological findings may be obtained, the symptoms of these patients are relatively easy to understand because they are, in a sense, “honest.”
In the first half of the lecture, I will discuss cases with gait disturbance as a typical neurological symptom, and introduce relationships among the clinical course, neurological symptoms, clinical examinations, and neuroimaging findings. This will be followed in the second half by a discussion of cases with epileptic seizures.
