Rupa Radhakrishnan, Lindsey A G Shea, Sumit Pruthi, Victoria M Silvera, Thangamadhan Bosemani, Nilesh K Desai, Donald L Gilbert, Orit A Glenn, Carolina V Guimaraes, Mai-Lan Ho, H F Samuel Lam, Mohit Maheshwari, David M Mirsky, Helen R Nadel, Sonia Partap, Gary R Schooler, Unni K Udayasankar, Matthew T Whitehead, Jason N Wright, Cynthia K Rigsby
Childhood ataxia may be due to multifactorial causes of impairment in the coordination of movement and balance. Acutely presenting ataxia in children may be due to infectious, inflammatory, toxic, ischemic, or traumatic etiology. Intermittent or episodic ataxia in children may be manifestations of migraine, benign positional vertigo, or intermittent metabolic disorders. Nonprogressive childhood ataxia suggests a congenital brain malformation or early prenatal or perinatal brain injury, and progressive childhood ataxia indicates inherited causes or acquired posterior fossa lesions that result in gradual cerebellar dysfunction...
November 2022: Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR