Description
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 nervous system 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. 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 Section 1: Development of the Brain and Spine 1 Normal Development of the Skull and Brain 2 The Neurologic Exam in Neonates and Toddlers Section 2: Newborn through Infancy 3 Birth Trauma to the Scalp and Skull 4 Brachial Plexus Injuries during Birth 5 Neonatal Brain Injury 6 Evaluation of Head Shape in the Pediatric Practice: Plagiocephaly vs. Craniosynostosis 7 Neurocutaneous Disorders 8 Cutaneous Markers of Spinal Dysraphism 9 Tethered Cord 10 Lumps and Bumps: Scalp and Skull Lesions Section 3: Hydrocephalus Primer 11 Intraventricular Hemorrhage in the Premature Infant 12 Neuro-ophthalmic Presentation of Neurosurgical Disease in Children 13 Hydrocephalus and Ventriculomegaly 14 Neurosurgical Considerations in Macrocephaly 15 Evaluation and Classification of Pediatric Headache Section 4: Imaging of the Pediatric Brain and Spine 16 Prenatal Imaging of the Fetal Brain and Spine 17 Prenatal Counseling for Fetal Diagnoses 18 Imaging of the Pediatric Brain 19 Radiographic Evaluation of Suspected Scoliosis 20 Image Gently: Radiation Exposure in Children Section 5: Beyond Hydrocephalus: What Pediatric Neurosurgeons Treat Most 21 Chiari Malformation 22 Pediatric Brain Tumors 23 Pediatric Neurovascular Disease 24 Pediatric Seizures 25 Approach to Spasticity in the Pediatric Patient 26 Assessment and Management of Minor Head Injuries in Toddlers and Adolescents 27 Non-Accidental Head Trauma 28 A Pediatrician’s Guide to Concussion Management 29 Pathophysiology and Diagnosis of Concussion
