Conditions and Treatments
Brain and Spinal Tumors
Experienced doctors working together may provide the best treatment for children with brain tumors. Your child's treatment will often be coordinated by the neuro-oncology team. Neurosurgeons For Kids … Read More »
Chiari Malformations
Occurs during fetal development and is characterized by downward displacement by more than four millimeters, of the cerebellar tonsils beneath the foramen magnum into the cervical spinal canal. … Read More »
Craniofacial Disorders
Whether it’s a skull, facial, cleft, ear, nasal or vascular deformity, our physicians have the skill and expertise to maximize your child’s function and improve self-image with little to no long-term difficulties. Read More »
Hydrocephalus Surgery
Hydrocephalus occurs when excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain causes increased swelling and pressure, and can lead to enlargement of the head and cognitive dysfunction. Hydrocephalus surgery places a shunt to divert fluid away from the brain and into other parts of the body to be absorbed. More »
Surgery for Epilepsy
Definition of Epilepsy - Epilepsy implies a periodic recurrence of seizures with or without convulsions. Seizures result from an excessive synchronous discharge of cortical neurons and is … Read More »
Moyamoya and Vascular Anomalies
Moyamoya disease is a very rare condition in which the walls of the internal carotid arteries - which supply blood to important areas of the brain - become thickened. This gradually slows the flow of … Read More »
Pediatric Head Injuries
Head Injury: Introduction, Incidence, Types of Head Injury, Current Knowledge and management, Long Term Sequellae, Prevention. Motor vehicles crashes are the #1 cause of TBI, SCI and seizures. … Read More »
Pediatric Spine & Spinal Cord Injuries
SPINE INJURY: Introduction, Incidence, Types of head Injury, Current Knowledge & Management, Long Term Sequellae, Preventions, … Read More »
Skull Molding
NEWBORN CRANIAL ANATOMY: Infant’s skull is made up of free-floating bones separated by fibrous sutures. Allows the head to pass through the birth canal and also enables the skull to grow during … Read More »
Spasticity
ETIOLOGIES: Cerebral palsy, Stroke, Multiple sclerosis, Traumatic brain injury, Spinal cord injury, Anoxia, Neurodegenera. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY of SPASTICITY, ASSOCIATED SIGNS: Abnormal cutaneo reflexes … Read
