A survey of antibiotic prophylaxis recommendations for patients with hydrocephalus shunts was sent to directors of advanced programs in pediatric dentistry and neurosurgery. Recommendations were sought for patients with ventriculoperitoneal (VP) or ventriculoatrial (VA) shunts who were to receive dental care. Most respondents believed that shunt infection (SI) was related infrequently to dental...

BACKGROUND Pediatric seizures in developing countries are often poorly investigated and consequently poorly managed. Sociocultural misconceptions, financial difficulties, and lack of facilities are often blamed. This study studies the structural intracranial abnormalities associated with pediatric seizures and the proportion of these structural lesions that may benefit from surgery. METHODS P...

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...

Hospital São José, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre RS, Brazil: MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital São José Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre; MD, Resident in Neurological Surgery, Hospital São José Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre; MD, Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Policlínica Santa Clara Santa Cas...

Dardinger Center for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, N-1017 Doan Hall, 410 W. 10 Avenue, James Cancer Hospital/Solove Research Institute/Comprehensive Cancer Center and Wexner Medical Center, and 2 Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1240 Department of Neurosurgery Institute for the Neurosciences at the Brigham, Brigham a...

PURPOSE To report a rare case of idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) in a prepubertal pediatric patient. CASE REPORT The patient was an 11-year-old Japanese boy. Initially, an ophthalmologist found severe papilledema, and the patient was diagnosed with IIH. He was unresponsive to conservative therapy, and a ventriculoperitoneal shunt was inserted in the Neurosurgery Department because ...