Pediatric Neurosurgery Board Review A Comprehensive Guide

This specialized textbook will be dedicated to the various disease topics of pediatric neurosurgery and management strategies. The text will cover the different aspects of the field of pediatric neurosurgery in a unique way by giving state of the art up-to-date synopsis with references to recent publications. More specifically, the whole book is dedicated to a comprehensive discussion of brainstem tumors and other lesions.  It will be composed of 20 chapters. The various chapters will start from updates regarding the development of the nervous system and the clinical differences in assessing the infant or a child in comparison to the adult patient. The book then will focus on  various pathologies starting with hydrocephalus, pediatric brain and spine tumors, congenital malformation, spasticity, epilepsy, and more. The proposed textbook will be enriched with diagnostic and surgical images, and illustrations that cover all types of pediatric neurosurgery pathologies, with an emphasis on evidence-based data that reflects the controversies and possible solutions. The main structure of each chapter will include a short synopsis of the topic at hand, questions and answers that will inspire the reader for better understanding, learning objectives, and key references for further reading. 

The neurological assessment of pediatric patient and the differences across different age groups.- The changes of the nervous system from fetal stages to early adulthood, as seen in different imaging modalities.- CSF dynamics and physiology, and the ventricular system surgical anatomy.- Hydrocephalus and surgical solutions for it.- Management of arachnoid cysts.- Management of congenital malformations (cranial and spinal).- Management of Chiari malformation.- Management of head shape deformity and Craniosynostosis.- Pediatric brain and brainstem tumors.- Pediatric spine, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system tumors.- Pediatric vascular malformations.- Pediatric Epilepsy surgery.- Management of pediatric patient with Phakomatosis.- Management of spasticity.- Management of brachial plexus injury across different age groups.- Management of musculoskeletal malformations.- Traumatic brain injury.- Traumatic spine injury.- Central nervous system infections and their management.- Pediatric Spinal Deformity.

George Jallo, M.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics and Oncology
Director, Institute for Brain Protection Sciences
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
Vice Dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Office Address:
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
600 5^th Street South, 4^th floor
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
E-mail: gjallo1@jhmi.edu

 

Nir Shimony, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Department of Surgery, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Department of Neurosurgery, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Semmes-Murphey Clinic

Memphis, Tennessee

USA

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery (Adjunct)
Johns Hopkins University school of medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

USA

Office Address:

Semmes-Murphey Clinic
6325 Humphreys Blvd,

Memphis, TN 38120

Email: nshimony@semmes-murphey.com