Paediatric Neurosurgery

Recent advances in paediatric neurosurgery.

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Some unsolved problems in paediatric neurosurgery.

A. N. GUTHKELCH (Hull) referred to the considerable advances in the treatment of children born with congenital deformities of the CNS and its coverings during the past decade, but felt that a different pattern of development might be appropriate in the 1970s. The loss, at least in Great Britain, of spina bifida and hydrocephalus cases to other hands was an anomaly which should be corrected by e...

Wiki Textbook of Paediatric Neurosurgery Intraventricular brain tumors in children

BRAIN MAPPING IN NEUROSURGERY

Background and Aim: Brain mapping is a study of the anatomy and function of the CNS (central nervous system). Brain mapping has many techniques and these techniques are permanently changing and updating. From the beginning, brain mapping was invasive and for brain mapping, electrical stimulation of the exposed brain was needed. However, nowadays brain mapping does not require electrical stimula...

CLINICAL NEUROSURGERY PROCEEDINGS Excellence in Spinal Neurosurgery

The New Oxford English Dictionary defines excellence as ‘‘the possession chiefly of good qualities in an eminent or unusual degree surpassing merit or skill.’’ The definition of medicine is ‘‘the art of restoring and preserving health.’’ Consequently, excellence in medicine is the art of restoring and preserving health with surpassing merit or skill. For patients, the price of mediocrity is hig...