title: Pediatric stroke.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pediatric stroke, while increasingly recognized among practitioners as a clinically significant, albeit infrequent entity, remains challenging from the viewpoint of clinicians and researchers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Advances in neuroimaging have revealed a higher prevalence of pediatric stroke while also provided a safer method for evaluating the child's nervous system and vasculature. An understanding of pathogenic mechanisms for pediatric stroke requires a division of ages (perinatal and childhood) and a separation of mechanism (ischemic and hemorrhagic). This article presents a review of the current literature with the recommended divisions of age and mechanism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Guidelines for treatment, though limited, are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA. Javier.cardenas@chw.edu
authors.forename: Javier F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cárdenas
authors.forename: Jong M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rho
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kirton
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D059906:Neuroimaging / Q000379:methods*; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*