Pediatric Neurosurgery Treatments and Services

Many conditions are treated in multidisciplinary clinics so that children see several specialists all in one visit.

Conditions we treat include:

  • Acute head injuries (concussions, sports-related head injuries, and traumatic brain injuries)
  • Anatomic abnormalities of the brain, spine, and peripheral nervous system
  • Brachial plexus and peripheral nerve disorders
  • Brain tumors and spinal cord tumors (neurofibromatosis and spinal tumors)
  • Brain cysts (arachnoid cysts)
  • Chiari malformations and syringomyelia
  • Complex spine injuries and disorders (spinal cord and spinal column trauma, spinal cord injuries, and sports-related neck injuries)
  • Congenital spinal cord problems (spina bifida and tethered cord)
  • Craniosynostosis (including open and endoscopic treatment techniques)
  • Dystonia
  • Epilepsy (surgical treatment, vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and responsive neurostimulation)
  • Hydrocephalus, ETVs (endoscopic third ventriculostomies) with choroid plexus cauterization and shunts
  • Macrocephaly
  • Skull tumors, dermoid and epidermoid skull tumors, and other skull conditions and fractures
  • Spasticity and cerebral palsy (including baclofen pumps and selective dorsal rhizotomies)
  • Scoliosis
  • Spina bifida and related spine disorders
  • Vascular malformations of the brain or spinal cord (moya moya disease and pial synangiosis, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), cavernomas, genetic vascular syndromes (HHT, CCM, etc.), and cerebral aneurysms)