Full Description
This volume features 15 papers presented by leading neurosurgeons at the 1990 meeting of the American Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. The authors discussed the latest concepts and exchanged clinical experiences on diverse neurological disorders affecting children. Controversial questions of diagnosis and management were addressed and results with new surgical and imaging procedures were reported. Topics covered included cervical dysraphic abnormalities, CSF shunts and shunt infections, paediatric brain tumours as well as stereotaxic balloon encephalotomy and gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of brain tumour patients.
Contents
Chiari II malformation - pathogenesis and dynamics, D.G. McLone et al; dystraphic appendage, case report of an accessory arm in a three month old infant, R.P. Humphreys and K.H. Manwaring; the significance of congenital posterior cervical of cervicothoracic midline cutaneous mass lesions - report of 7 cases, F. Steinbok and D.D. Cochrane; an analysis of the need for shunting after brain tumour surgery, H.L. Rekate et al; the use of the surgical isolation bubble in ventricular peritoneal shunts, A.E. Marlin and S.J. Gaskill; the spectrum of treatments for shunt infections - the role of the type of hydrocephalus and the bacterial contaminent in the therapeutic approach, H.E. James; management of hydrocephalic women during pregnancy, J. H. Wisoff; the transtorcular embolization of veins of Galen aneurysms and update on the use of this technique in 24 patients, J. Parker Mickle; cavernous angiomas in children - natural history, pathology and surgical selection, R.M. Scott; retinal haemorrhages, seizures and intracranial haemorrhages - relationhsips and outcomes in children suffering traumatic brain injury, T.G. Luerssen et al; ventilator dependent paediatric cord injuries - an appraisal, J.M. Nadell; stereotaxic balloon encephalotomy in the treatment of deep seated supratentorial brain tumours, W.M. Chadduck; gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in postoperative paediatric brain tumour patients, R.S. Boyer et al; pitfalls in the management of low grade gliomas, A.R. Sanford et al; global cerebral ischemia from cardiac arrest with bypass reperfusion under conditions of mild and deep hypothermia, L.N. Sutton et al.
