Common Neurosurgical Conditions in the Pediatric Practice

1. Front Matter

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2. Development of the Brain and Spine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Normal Development of the Skull and Brain

      • Waleed A. Azab

      Pages 3-9

   3. The Neurologic Exam in Neonates and Toddlers

      • Alison S. May, Sotirios T. Keros

      Pages 11-23

3. Newborn Through Infancy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Birth Trauma to the Scalp and Skull

      • Babacar Cisse, Ibrahim Hussain, Jeffrey P. Greenfield, Jeffrey P. Greenfield

      Pages 27-33

   3. Brachial Plexus Injuries During Birth

      • Peter F. Morgenstern

      Pages 35-45

   4. Neonatal Brain Injury

      • Anil Sindhurakar, Jason B. Carmel

      Pages 47-59

   5. Evaluation of Head Shape in the Pediatric Practice: Plagiocephaly vs. Craniosynostosis

      • Charlotte A. Beam, G. Rene Alvarez Berastegui, Jeffrey P. Greenfield

      Pages 61-69

   6. Neurocutaneous Disorders

      • Kaleb H. Yohay, Matthew McCarthy

      Pages 71-92

   7. Cutaneous Markers of Spinal Dysraphism

      • Assem M. Abdel-Latif

      Pages 93-99

   8. Tethered Cord

      • María Teresa Alvarado Torres

      Pages 101-105

   9. Lumps and Bumps: Scalp and Skull Lesions

      • Nelson Moussazadeh, Matei A. Banu

      Pages 107-121

4. Hydrocephalus Primer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Intraventricular Hemorrhage in the Premature Infant

      • Jeffrey M. Perlman

      Pages 125-135

   3. Neuro-Ophthalmic Presentation of Neurosurgical Disease in Children

      • Dara M. West, Marc Dinkin

      Pages 137-161

   4. Hydrocephalus and Ventriculomegaly

      • Assem M. Abdel-Latif, Jeffrey P. Greenfield

      Pages 163-176

   5. Neurosurgical Considerations in Macrocephaly

      • Imithri D. Bodhinayake, Heather J. McCrea

      Pages 177-187

   6. Evaluation and Classification of Pediatric Headache

      • Zuhal Ergonul

      Pages 189-197

5. Imaging of the Pediatric Brain and Spine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 199-199

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This unique title is designed to illustrate and foster how a closer working relationship between pediatricians and subspecialists can make childhood medicine work more seamlessly. Despite the common lack of training for pediatricians in pediatric neurosurgery, they are challenged almost daily with caring for children with neurologic conditions. Common Neurological Conditions in the Pediatric Practice is replete with a wide range of instructional case vignettes and is organized into sections that loosely approximate the neurologic development of a child and address issues that are commonly encountered. The first section reviews neurologic development and birth related trauma commonly seen in the neonatal intensive care unit. The second part addresses findings commonly encountered by a pediatrician in a child’s first month of life. The third section is a comprehensive review of hydrocephalus. Part four describes state of the art imaging techniques for the central nervoussystem in children, from pre-natal ultrasound through MRI and CT; and the fifth part consists of individual explorations of common neurosurgical conditions that many pediatricians are uncomfortable managing, including brain tumors, spasticity, and vascular lesions to use as a reference tool when caring for a complex neurosurgical patient. Finally a series of chapters related to head trauma, including sections on non-accidental trauma and concussion management, completes the text.

• neurologic exam
• neurocutaneous disorders
• pediatric
• birth trauma
• neurosurgery

• Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

  Jeffrey P. Greenfield

• Manhattan Pediatrics, New York, USA

  Caroline B. Long

Jeffrey Greenfield, MD, PhD is a pediatric neurosurgeon at New York Presbyterian-Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Greenfield, a native New Yorker, graduated from Amherst College Magna Cum Laude in Neuroscience before receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences. His laboratory mentor during his PhD was Paul Greengard at The Rockefeller University, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2000. He completed his Neurosurgery residency at The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. During residency he was awarded a scientific fellowship with Howard Hughes Scientist Shahin Rafii in Stem Cell Biology at the Ansary Center for Stem Cell Therapeutics.

Jeffrey P. Greenfield, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY 


Caroline B.Long, MD
Attending in Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Manhattan Pediatrics
New York, NY

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