RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fifteen-minute consultation: The child with acute ataxia
JF Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
JO Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 217
OP 223
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2013-304653
VO 98
IS 6
A1 Manish Prasad
A1 Min Tsui Ong
A1 Gururaj Setty
A1 William P Whitehouse
YR 2013
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/98/6/217.abstract
AB Acute ataxia is a relatively common presentation to the paediatric acute services or child neurologist. Although the cause of ataxia is most often benign, it is important during initial assessment to recognise or exclude serious causes including brain tumour and central nervous system infections. It is equally important to recognise the non-neurological causes of unsteady gait and to avoid unnecessary investigations. In this review, we have presented a diagnostic approach to a child presenting with acute ataxia and described various causes, their treatments and outcomes.