Principles of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Principles of Neurosurgery

Even the word "neurosurgery" itself conjures immediate feelings of complexity and incomprehensibility to the student who is trying to understand the concepts involved in surgical treatments of the human brain. Especially at the beginning of the road to understanding this complex subject, the student is often overwhelmed and frustrated by the explosive number of monographs, texts, atlases, and o...

Defining excellence in pediatric neurosurgery.

Management of intracerebral hemorrhage in pediatric neurosurgery

Pediatric stroke is a relatively rare occurrence, with an annual incidence of 1.2–13 cases per 100,000. Hemorrhagic strokes account for half of these cases.[28] In adults, hemorrhagic strokes are predominantly hypertensive in etiology. However, in the pediatric population, they are frequently associated with vascular lesions such as AVMs (47%), arteriovenous fistulas, or CMs [Table 1].[21] Othe...

Hyperglycemia and postoperative outcomes in pediatric neurosurgery

Eduardo Mekitarian Filho, Werther Brunow de Carvalho, Sérgio Cavalheiro, Nelson Kazunobu Horigoshi, Norberto Antonio Freddi, Gil Kruppa Vieira I Pediatrics and Sciences Applied to Pediatrics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Pediatric Emergency Department, University Hospital of Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and Admissions Unit of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Pediatric Inte...

Life and Medical Ethics in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Ethical issues in the field of pediatric neurosurgery, including prenatal diagnosis, palliative care for children with an intractable serious disease, and medical neglect, are discussed. An important role of medicine is to offer every possible treatment to a patient. However, it also is the responsibility of medicine to be conscious of its limitations, and to help parents love and respect a chi...