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Pediatric Neurosurgery in Primary Care, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 68-4 - July 14, 2021
- Editors: Jonathan Martin, Greg Olavarria
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 6 3 5 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 6 3 6 - 1
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Pediatric Clinics, guest editors Jonathan Martin brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Pediatric Neurosurgery in Primary Care.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Pediatric Neurosurgery in Primary Care, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- CME Accreditation Page
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Review of Pediatric Neurologic History and Age-Appropriate Neurologic Examination in the Office
- Key points
- History
- Neurologic examination
- Neuroimaging for the Primary Care Provider: A Review of Modalities, Indications, and Pitfalls
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Ionizing radiation risk in pediatric medical imaging
- Contrast use in neuroimaging
- Balancing sedation with imaging
- Summary
- Diagnosis and Management of Suture-Related Concerns of the Infant Skull
- Key points
- The cranial fontanelles
- Positional deformation of the skull
- Craniosynostosis
- Nonsynostotic abnormalities
- Summary
- Clinics Care Points
- Pediatric Neurosurgery in Primary Care: Masses of the Scalp and Skull in Children
- Key points
- Congenital
- Traumatic
- Vascular lesions
- Infectious lesions
- Neoplastic lesions
- Disclosure
- Macrocephaly in the Primary Care Provider’s Office
- Key points
- Introduction
- Normal and abnormal head growth curves
- History and physical
- Imaging
- Benign macrocephaly
- Pathologic causes of macrocephaly
- Genetic or syndromic causes of macrocephaly
- Osseous abnormalities
- Megalencephaly
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Incidental Intracranial Cysts in Children
- Key points
- Introduction
- Arachnoid cysts
- Choroid plexus cysts
- Pineal cysts
- Summary
- Chiari Malformation in Children
- Key points
- Description/Classification
- Epidemiology
- Review of symptoms and physical examination findings
- Diagnosis and treatment
- Approach to incidental Chiari I malformation
- Summary
- Pediatric Hydrocephalus and the Primary Care Provider
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomy and physiology of cerebrospinal fluid pathways
- Classification of hydrocephalus
- Diagnostic testing
- Surgical management of hydrocephalus
- Monitoring a child with hydrocephalus: the primary care perspective
- Common questions related to shunts and hydrocephalus
- Magnetic field exposures
- Hydrocephalus education
- Summary
- Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors in Children
- Key points
- Introduction
- Distribution of pediatric central nervous system tumors
- Clinical presentation of brain tumors
- Clinical presentation of spinal cord tumors
- Diagnostic work-up
- Surgical treatment
- Radiation therapy
- Chemotherapy
- Special circumstances
- Future directions
- Summary
- Intracranial Vascular Abnormalities in Children
- Key points
- Introduction
- Vascular Malformations (Arteriovenous Malformations/Arteriovenous Fistulae and Cavernous Malformations)
- Structural arteriopathies (aneurysms and moyamoya)
- Incidental findings and developmental variants
- Frequently asked questions about pediatric intracranial vascular abnormalities
- Disclosure
- Epilepsy Surgery in Children
- Key points
- Definition of epilepsy
- Seizure types
- Febrile seizures
- Causes of epilepsy in children
- Management and treatment of children with epilepsy
- Resective and disconnective surgery: focal and lobar resections, hemispherectomy and hemispherotomy, and corpus callosotomy
- Other interventions: laser ablation, vagal nerve stimulation, responsive neurostimulation, and deep brain stimulation
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
- Key points
- Background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Cervical Spine Injury in Children and Adolescents
- Key points
- Background and epidemiology
- Biomechanics and anatomic considerations
- Clinical evaluation
- Clinical conditions
- Diagnostic evaluation
- Special considerations
- Summary
- Cutaneous Stigmata of the Spine: A Review of Indications for Imaging and Referral
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evaluation
- Discussion
- Summary
- Caring for the Child with Spina Bifida
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definitions
- Diagnosis
- Prenatal closure of myelomeningocele
- Perinatal care of myelomeningocele
- Neurosurgical care for the child with myelomeningocele
- Review of Tone Management for the Primary Care Provider
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology of spastic cerebral palsy
- Associated medical and neurologic disorders in spasticity and cerebral palsy
- Tone management in spasticity
- Physical therapy and nonpharmacologic interventions in spasticity
- Pharmacologic options for spasticity treatment
- Intramuscular injections for neuromuscular blockade in spasticity
- Orthopedic procedures for spasticity
- Neurosurgical procedures for spasticity
- Intrathecal baclofen therapy for spasticity
- Intrathecal baclofen withdrawal: a medical emergency
- Dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity
- Pathophysiology of dystonia and associated disorders
- Clinical evaluation of dystonia
- Medical therapy for dystonia
- Intrathecal baclofen therapy for dystonia
- Cranial neurosurgical procedures for dystonia
- Summary
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 68-4
- Published: July 14, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323796354
- eBook ISBN: 9780323796361
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Jonathan Martin
Affiliations and expertise
Chief, Division of Neurosurgery
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
University of Connecticut School of Medicine