Common Neurosurgical Conditions in the Pediatric Practice
Recognition and Management
Editors: Greenfield, Jeffrey P., Long, Caroline B. (Eds.)
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- Co-edited by a Pediatric Neurosurgeon and a General Pediatrician for both perspectives
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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.
- About the authors
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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, PhDAssociate Professor of Neurological SurgeryWeill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY
Caroline B. Long, MDAttending in PediatricsPediatricsManhattan PediatricsNew York, NY
- Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Normal Development of the Skull and Brain
Pages 3-9
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The Neurologic Exam in Neonates and Toddlers
Pages 11-23
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Birth Trauma to the Scalp and Skull
Pages 27-33
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Brachial Plexus Injuries During Birth
Pages 35-45
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Neonatal Brain Injury
Pages 47-59
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Common Neurosurgical Conditions in the Pediatric Practice
- Book Subtitle
- Recognition and Management
- Editors
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- Jeffrey P. Greenfield
- Caroline B. Long
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-3807-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-3807-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-3805-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 444
- Number of Illustrations
- 189 b/w illustrations, 110 illustrations in colour
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