Challenges in paediatric neurosurgery

Recent advances in paediatric neurosurgery.

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Some unsolved problems in paediatric neurosurgery.

A. N. GUTHKELCH (Hull) referred to the considerable advances in the treatment of children born with congenital deformities of the CNS and its coverings during the past decade, but felt that a different pattern of development might be appropriate in the 1970s. The loss, at least in Great Britain, of spina bifida and hydrocephalus cases to other hands was an anomaly which should be corrected by e...

Wiki Textbook of Paediatric Neurosurgery Intraventricular brain tumors in children

Challenges in paediatric asthma today.

1 Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and The Children’s Medical Institute, National University Hospital, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Dr Lynette Shek, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074. Email: [email protected] Asthma today a...

Paediatric HIV - trends & challenges

With the availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV infection, which was once considered a progressively fatal illness, has now become a chronic treatable condition in children, as in adults. However, the challenges these children are forced to face are far more daunting. The most significant shortcoming in the response to paediatric HIV remains the woefully inadequate prevention of moth...