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Correction to: Outcomes following management of relapsed pediatric posterior fossa ependymoma in the molecular era
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Outcomes following management of relapsed pediatric posterior fossa ependymoma in the molecular era
The overall survival and prognostic factors for children with multiply recurrent posterior fossa ependymoma are not well understood. We aimed to assess prognostic factors associated with survival for relapsed ...
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Preservation of endocrine function after Ommaya reservoir insertion in children with cystic craniopharyngioma
Children with craniopharyngiomas (CP) can experience significant morbidities caused by extensive surgery and/or radiation. Ommaya reservoir insertion (ORI) into cystic CP represents a minimally invasive approa...
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Evolution of microneurosurgical anatomy with special reference to the history of anatomy, surgical anatomy, and microsurgery: historical overview
This article reviews the evolution of microneurosurgical anatomy (MNA) with special reference to the development of anatomy, surgical anatomy, and microsurgery. Anatomy can be said to have started in the ancie...
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Hybrid Learning in Neurosurgery
Hybrid learning substitutes the process of in-person, face-to-face knowledge transfer with online learning. By exploiting connectivism in the digital era through the internet and social media platforms, novel ...
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Open AccessDiffuse intrinsic pontine glioma: current insights and future directions
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) is a lethal pediatric brain tumor and the leading cause of brain tumor–related death in children. As several clinical trials over the past few decades have led to no sig...
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Global Neurosurgery: How Best to Be Involved
In this chapter, Dr. Dewan and Dr. Rutka discuss involvement in neurosurgery on a global level. Education and training represent the most impactful means of combating the deficit in the provision of essential ...
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Book and Living Reference Work (Continuously updated edition)
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Book and Reference Work
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Extratemporal Lobe Epilepsy in Children: Localization and Outcomes After Surgery
While adults and children frequently suffer from temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), adults more so than children, children will also develop extratemporal lobe epilepsy (ETLE) at a frequency that is greater than in...
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Thalamic Gliomas
Thalamic tumors compromise 1–5% of all pediatric brain tumors, but pose a formidable diagnostic and surgical challenge to the pediatric neurosurgeon. Unilateral lesions can be discrete and can allow for surgic...
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Familial Syndromes
The familial cancer syndromes are a heterogeneous group of multisystem disorders. They are characterized by cancers occurring at a young age, in successive generations of a family, with tumors arising in a syn...
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Neuromodulation
Pediatric neuromodulation is a rapidly growing field, focused on treating neurological disorders through modulating neurocircuitry. Through targeting nodes in aberrant neural circuits, minimally invasive proce...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Extratemporal Lobe Epilepsy in Children: Localization and Outcomes After Surgery
Extratemporal lobe epilepsy (ETLE) is a common form of epilepsy in children and is more common than adults where temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) remains the most frequent epilepsy subtype. While epilepsy surgery ...
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Dysembryoplastic Neuroectodermal Tumors
Dysembryoplastic neuroectodermal or neuroepithelial tumor (DNET) was initially described by Daumas-Duport et al. [1] in 1988 as a mixed tumor with glial and neuronal elements and has been included in the World...
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Craniopharyngioma: Current Classification, Management, and Future Directions
Craniopharyngioma is one of the most challenging brain tumors, located in sellar/suprasellar region in close proximity to the optic apparatus and hypothalamus. Although histologically low grade, the tumor can ...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Neuromodulation
Pediatric neuromodulation is a rapidly growing field, focused on treating neurological disorders through modulating neurocircuitry. Through targeting nodes in aberrant neural circuits, minimally invasive proce...
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Neurocutaneous Syndromes
Neurocutaneous disorders are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders characterized by abnormalities of the skin and nervous systems due to their common embryological origin. These disorders have inconsisten...
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Brainstem Tumors in Children
Brainstem tumors are a disparate group of tumors that span the regions of the midbrain to the cervicomedullary junction (Fig. 20.1). They most frequently occur in children and lack a specific gender predilecti...
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Thalamic Gliomas
Pediatric thalamic gliomas present specific challenges in surgical and oncological management. Although the tumor histopathologies are similar to their supratentorial counterparts and are often benign, they ar...
