Il bambino con atassia acuta

Pediatric acute ataxia generally represents an infrequent occurrence of pediatric emergency department access, but the broad differential diagnosis concerning it requires, starting with anamnesis and objective examination, to mainly exclude life-threatening causes in the child. For these reasons, the diagnosis of acute post infectious cerebellar ataxia, a benign and self-limiting form, which is the underlying cause in most cases of acute ataxia must always be a diagnosis of exclusion. The broad differential diagnosis also requires a correct approach that must consider the setting about the use of imaging techniques proportional to the urgency, in order to reduce the risk of unnecessary radio exposure. Starting from this, we have attempted to summarize the literature regarding the clinical history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests necessary to arrive at a correct diagnosis.