Intraspinal tumours In infancy and childhood, tumours within the spinal canal arc rarer than in adult life. Because of the relative rarity of neoplasms primarily involving meninges or nerve roots, pain is less common than in adult cases, and this, combined with the difficulty in examining... 

Brain abscess Brain abscess in children arises in several different ways. Spread of infection from other sites is an important source, either by direct or venous extension from infection in the middle ear, mastoid or sinuses, or by blood-born metastasis from infection in lungs, pleura... 

Benign intracranial hypertension (pseudotumour cerebri) In this syndrome of varied, and often indefinite, aetiology raised intracranial pressure develops in the absence of an intracranial space-occupying lesion, and is usually transient. The symptoms are non-specific with headache,... 

Acute or subacute yellow atrophy This is a rare disease which starts like an attack of ordinary epidemic hepatitis. The symptoms, however, become much more severe, with headache, delirium, vomiting, diarrhoea and high fever. The disease is commoner in older children and young adults....