background brain abscess is an infrequent complication of meningitis, including cases caused by gram-negative enteric bacteria and klebsiella in neonates. brain abscess in neonates associated with high morbidity and mortality.recently, incidence of the disease is increasing because of increased predisposing factors. patients and method three cases of brain abscess in neonates are reported, 2 of...

Dr. Zinnur Rollas is the founder of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Gulhane Military Medical Academy (GMMA). He was educated in the United States and returned to Turkey in order to practice neurosurgery. He is also the first surgeon who performed pediatric neurosurgical procedures at GMMA. Dr. Rollas operated on many pediatric cases of meningocele, myelomeningocele, encephalocele, hydroce...

The tradition of selfless charity for children in Toronto was established by Elizabeth McMaster, founder of the Hospital for Sick Children, or "Sick Kids," in 1875. The tradition of fortitude and perseverance in trying to cure children who were deemed incurable by others was sealed into the history of the Hospital by early pioneering surgeons, including Drs. Clarence Starr, A.W. Farmer, and Wil...

Although pediatric neurosurgery is relatively young as a formal subspecialty of general neurosurgery (the first meeting of the Section of Pediatric Neurological Surgery was held in 1972 and the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery first met in 1978), it has been practiced for millennia. Trephined pediatric skulls were excavated in Peru and at other ancient sites.1 The father of neurosurge...

1Department of Neurological Surgery, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; 2Division of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Goryeb Children’s Hospital, Morristown, New Jersey; 3Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and 4Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; 5De ­ part ment of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hos­ pital, Boston, ...

Departament of Neurology, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo SP, Brazil (FMUSP): Resident, Division of Child Neurology, FMUSP; Resident, Division of Neurosurgery, FMUSP; Associated Physician, Division of Child Neurology, FMUSP; Full Professor, Division of Child Neurology, FMUSP; Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit, Division of Neurosurgery, FMUSP; Full Professor, Division of Neu...