Pediatric Neurosurgery for Clinicians

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About this book

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Covers a broad range of areas relevant to pediatric neurosurgery

Focuses on answering specific clinical questions

Contains content relevant to clinicians in a variety of disciplines including oncology and pathology

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This book presents a detailed overview of a spectrum of pediatric neurosurgical conditions.

It features detailed insight into the techniques available for examining abnormalities, hemorrhages and a variety of tumors.

Relevant surgical methodologies are described in relation to a clinical problem or disorder, ensuring that the reader can systematically develop their knowledge of how to perform both routine and more-obscure procedures presently utilized to treat these conditions.

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Pediatric Neurosurgery for Clinicians?

is a comprehensive guide detailing methodologies for applying a range of surgical techniques based upon a range of clinical questions.

Therefore, it is a critical resource for all practicing and trainee physicians who encounter children with disorders affecting their neurological systems in disciplines within neurosurgery, neurology, radiology, oncology and pathology.

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Table of contents (53 chapters)

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Front Matter

Pages i-x

General Topics

Front Matter

Pages 1-1

History of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Amalia Christopoulou

Pages 3-12

Neurological Examination

Theodoros Gouvias, Aikaterini Drougia

Pages 13-37

Congenital and Developmental Cranial Anomalies

Front Matter

Pages 39-39

Hydrocephalus

Marcos V.

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Amato Figueiredo, Roberta Rehder

Pages 41-49

Intraventricular Hemorrhage in the Newborn

Young-Soo Park

Pages 51-65

Arachnoid Cysts

Ahmed El Damaty

Pages 67-81

Dandy-Walker Malformation

Georgios Alexiou, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 83-87

Chiari Malformation

Amin Tavallaii

Pages 89-118

Encephaloceles

Elie Hammam, Sarut Chaisrisawadisuk, Mark H.

Moore, Stephen Santoreneos

Pages 119-134

Craniosynostosis

Marios Lampros, Georgios Alexiou, George Sfakianos, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 135-145

Craniofacial Syndromes

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Mavridis, W.

S.

B.

Wimalachandra, D.

Rodrigues

Pages 147-161

Congenital and Developmental Spinal Anomalies

Front Matter

Pages 163-163

Myelomeningocele-Lipomyelomeningocele

Dimitrios Pachatouridis

Pages 165-169

Split Cord Malformations

Anastasios Nasios, Georgios Alexiou, George Sfakianos, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 171-176

Myeloschisis

Sandip Chatterjee, Arjun Dasgupta

Pages 177-183

Non-Dysraphic Spinal Lipomas

Chandrashekhar Deopujari, Mayur Mhatre, Harshal Agrawal

Pages 185-201

Tumors

Front Matter

Pages 203-203

Predisposing Syndromes

Kalliopi Stefanaki

Pages 205-218

Tumors

Scalp and Skull Tumors

Georgios Alexiou, Georgios Kafritsas, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 219-227

Astrocytomas

Matheus F.

M.

Ballestero, Luciano Furlanetti, Guilherme G.

Podolsky, Ricardo S.

de Oliveira

Pages 229-248

Embryonal Tumors

Jean-Paul Bryant, Toba N.

Niazi

Pages 249-271

Ependymal Tumors

Georgios Alexiou, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 273-280

Neuronal and Mixed Neuronal-Glial Tumors

Marios Lampros, Georgios Alexiou, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 281-301

Craniopharyngioma and Other Sellar Tumors

Amets Sagarribay Ira?

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Pages 303-325

Pediatric Brainstem Tumors

Ariana Barkley, Jason Scott Hauptman

Pages 327-344

Pineal Region Tumors in Pediatric Patients

Joham Choque-Velasquez, Roberto Colasanti, Danil A.

Kozyrev, Szymon Baluszek, Sajjad Muhammad, Juha Hernesniemi

Pages 345-369

Paediatric Brain Tumours: Rare Variants

Jia Xu Lim, Liming Qiu, Sharon Y.

Y.

Low, Wan Tew Seow

Pages 371-396

Spinal Tumors

Georgios Alexiou, Marios Lampros, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 397-416

Trauma

Front Matter

Pages 417-417

Abusive Head Trauma

Georgios Alexiou, Georgios Kafritsas, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 419-424

Pediatric Skull Fracture

Mohammad Jamous, Amer Al-Omari

Pages 425-432

Epidural Hematoma

Andreas Zigouris

Pages 433-443

Subdural Hematoma

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Moshiur Rahman, Ezequiel Garcia-Ballestas, Amit Agrawal, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar

Pages 445-450

Traumatic Axonal Injury - Intracerebral Hematoma

Dionysoula Skiada, Spyridon Voulgaris

Pages 451-457

Penetrating Head Trauma

Marios Lampros, Georgios Alexiou, George Sfakianos, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 459-467

Spine Trauma

Vino Siva, Marios C.

Papadopoulos

Pages 469-481

Cerebrovascular Disorders

Front Matter

Pages 483-483

Arteriovenous Malformations

Torstein R.

Meling

Pages 485-502

Cerebrovascular Disorders

Cavernous Malformations

Michael Karsy, Richard H.

Schmidt, Robert J.

Bollo

Pages 503-512

Intracerebral Aneurysms

Jillian H.

Plonsker, Robert C.

Rennert, Usman A.

Khan, Michael L.

Levy

Pages 513-524

Moya-Moya Disease

Ahmad Sweid, Abdelaziz Amllay, Pascal Jabbour

Pages 525-540

Vein of Galen Aneurysmal Malformations

Xiheng Chen, Xianli Lv

Pages 541-550

Functional

Front Matter

Pages 551-551

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Tristan Brunette-Clement, Aria Fallah, Alexander G.

Weil

Pages 553-592

Extratemporal Lobe Epilepsy

Marcelo Budke Neukamp, Antonio Gil-Nagel Rein, Angel Aledo Serrano

Pages 593-614

Hemispherectomy

Carrie R.

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Pages 615-632

Deep Brain Stimulation for Pediatric Movement Disorders

Santiago Candela-Cant?

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o Ortigoza-Escobar, Alejandra Darling, Jordi Rumi?

Pages 633-651

Deep Brain Stimulation in the Management of Neuropsychiatric Conditions in Children

Luciano Furlanetti, Asfand Baig Mirza, Kantharuby Tambirajoo, Keyoumars Ashkan

Pages 653-667

Spasticity

George Georgoulis

Pages 669-678

Infections

Front Matter

Pages 679-679

Shunt Infection

Jorge Linares, Sara Iglesias, Bienvenido Ros

Pages 681-692

Epidural Abscess and Subdural Empyema

A.

Tu, J.

Hsu, P.

Steinbok

Pages 693-711

Brain Abscess in Children

Suhas Udayakumaran, Chiazor U.

Onyia

Pages 713-735

Encephalitis

Marios Lampros, Georgios Alexiou, Neofytos Prodromou

Pages 737-746

Spine Infection in Children

Pietro Spennato, Carmela Russo, Domenico Cicala, Gianluca Colella, Novella Carannante, Alessandra Marini et al.

Pages 747-769

Modern Concepts and Practices

Front Matter

Pages 771-771

Advances in Pediatric MRI

Loukas G.

Astrakas, Maria I.

Argyropoulou

Pages 773-791

Molecular Imaging in Pediatric Brain Tumors

Georgios Alexiou, Chrissa Sioka, Andreas D.

Fotopoulos

Pages 793-801

Modern Concepts and Practices

Intraoperative Flow Cytometry in Pediatric Brain Tumors

Georgios Alexiou, George Vartholomatos

Pages 803-811

Advances in Radiotherapy for Pediatric Brain Tumours

Pinelopi Gkogkou, Thankamma V.

Ajithkumar

Pages 813-838

Rehabilitation of Children with Traumatic Brain Injury

Eleftherios-Spyridon Alexiou, Jiolanda Zika

Pages 839-842

Back Matter

Pages 843-861

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