General and central nervous system anatomy and physiology in children is different to that of
adults and this is relevant to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury. The …

Introduction People with various medical conditions and devices are suggested candidates
for receiving antibiotic prophylaxis before undergoing dental procedures. This practice is …

Congenital hydrocephalus (CH), characterized by enlarged brain ventricles, is considered a
disease of excessive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) accumulation and thereby treated with …

Abstract The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) and its most recent revision, the GOS–
Extended (GOS-E), provide the gold standard for measuring traumatic brain injury (TBI) …

Object The authors reviewed their experience with endoscopic approaches to determine
their safety and efficacy in the treatment of pediatric patients who harbor skull base lesions …

Object Optimal treatment of primary and recurrent craniopharyngiomas remains
controversial. Radical resection and limited resection plus radiation therapy yield similar …

OBJECT Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) remains most often a clinical diagnosis and
has been widely considered responsive to the placement of a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) …

Syndromic craniosynostosis, premature fusion of the cranial sutures in syndromic patients,
has been reported to affect from 1: 100,000 to 1: 30,000 1 live births causing restriction in …

Hindbrain herniations come in many forms and have been further subdivided as their
original descriptions. For cerebellar tonsillar ectopia, they can be divided into two …

Background Pediatric pituitary adenoma is a rare skull base neoplasm, accounting for 3% of
all intracranial neoplasms in children and 5% of pituitary adenomas. Compared with pituitary …