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Child's Nervous System

Issue 1/2025

Content (432 Articles)

Supporting families affected by paediatric hydrocephalus: a global neurosurgery viewpoint

Ashwin Kumaria

Myxoid glioneuronal tumor of the septum pellucidum in pediatric patients: a case report and comprehensive review of the literature

Kadir Oktay, Umut Pektas, Fatma Calkan Gunduz, Mansur Mammadov, Nuri Eralp Cetinalp, Kerem Mazhar Ozsoy, Seyda Erdogan

Effectiveness of subgaleal topical vancomycin powder in reducing infection rates and shunt revisions in pediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery: a promising prophylactic approach

Ece Uysal, Hidayet Safak Cine, Haluk Cem Cakaloglu

Congenital intracranial immature teratoma in a preterm infant: illustrative case

Athary Saleem, Ameer Alqallaf, Mai Alduwailah, Nofil Zulfiqar, Sabreyah Saleh, Abdulrahman Alrabea, Radovan Mijalcic, Tarik Alsheikh

Radiation-induced Moyamoya syndrome—missed diagnosis with a fatal outcome in a recurrent craniopharyngioma

Tejus M. N. Rao, Sumit Thakar, Avinash Lakha, Saritha Aryan

Spontaneous regression of paediatric pituitary lesions—report of 2 cases and literature review

Jonis M. L. Esguerra, Daniel C. W. Chan, Phua Hwee Tang, Ngee Lek, Sharon Y. Y. Low

Early detection of cerebral sinus venous thrombosis in an extremely low birth weight infant using cranial ultrasound—case report and literature review

Aleksandra Skubisz, Anna Tomaszkiewicz, Małgorzata Bocheńska, Witold Błaż, Luca Antonio Ramenghi

Orthoptic findings in trigonocephaly patients after completed visual development

Sumin Yang, Linda Gaillard, Bianca K. den Ottelander, Irene M. J. Mathijssen, Sjoukje E. Loudon, Marieke A. J. Telleman

Pseudoachondroplasia associated with os odontoideum and retro-odontoid mass: case-based update

Hadleigh J. Cuthbert, Rory C. Cuthbert, Mostafa Elmaghraby, Fardad T. Afshari, Guirish A. Solanki

Imaging for suspected paediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt dysfunction: are shunt series X-rays always necessary?

Laura Middleton, Michael Jackson, Drahoslav Sokol, Jothy Kandasamy, Chandrasekaran Kaliaperumal

Impact of stereotactic radiotherapy for craniopharyngioma: a large, academic hospital cohort

Geovanne Pedro Mauro, Leila Maria Da Róz, Vinicius de Carvalho Gico, Eduardo Weltman, Evandro César de Souza, Rosangela Correa Villar, Hamilton Matushita, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti

Comparison of syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis cases followed in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit: a case control study

Feyza İncekoy Girgin, Ruslan Abdullayev, Mustafa Sakar, Adnan Dağçınar, Makbule Nilufer Ozturk

Paediatric meningiomas: a multi-centre case series of 27 patients

Luke Rhys Mattey, Zoë James, Taha Lilo, Yazan El Adwan, Maria Rosaria Scala, Ian Kamaly-Asl, Conor Mallucci, Paul Leach

In memoriam: Dr. Fernando Rueda Franco

Ramiro José del Rio, Tenoch Herrada Pineda

Elegy for Sandip Chatterjee

Adrian Caceres

Plesiomonas shigelloides infection in newborn: case report and literature review

P. Cappelletto, A. Barbato, C. Virgili, A. Di Rita, T. B. Appleton, L. Padrini, P. L. Vasarri, F. Giordano

Evaluation of optic nerve sheath diameter measurements in postictal pediatric patients

İpek Dokurel Çetin, Nihan Şık

Advancing the management of neonatal hemorrhages: clinical evaluation of external ventricular drainage efficacy

Yi Yuan, Zhi Hu Li, Zong Jian An, Fei Gao, WeiLi Xu, Yong Sun

Primary intracranial myoepithelioma in a child

Madhivanan Karthigeyan, Sai Shiva Tadakamalla, Debajyoti Chatterjee, Pravin Salunke, Goutham Varma

Intraoperative neuromonitoring and mapping during spinal cord untethering surgery; a single-centre paediatric neurosurgery unit experience

William M. McDevitt, Fardad T. Afshari, Pasquale Gallo, Laura Quinn, Darren Martin-Lamb, Joshua Pepper, William B. Lo, Desiderio Rodrigues, Guirish A. Solanki

Comparative efficacy and safety of mid-neck vs. supraclavicular vagus nerve stimulation in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy

Paya Yazdan Panah, Feride Un Candan, Aaron E.L. Warren, Irfan Ali, Ian Mutchnick, Cemal Karakas

Hydrocephalus in Sanajd Sakati syndrome: a first clinical report

Mohammed Awad Elzain, Munif Alshammari, Ahmed Al Jishi

Recurrent cervicothoracic spontaneous epidural hematoma in a toddler

Taku Uchiyama, Akira Gomi, Kensuke Kawai

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in the intradural extramedullary space of the lumbosacral spine: a case report and review of the literature

Guramritpal Singh, Ashutosh Kumar, Anantha Chaitanya J, Sushila Jaiswal, Pawan Verma, Anant Mehrotra, Awadhesh Jaiswal

Contemporary mortality of neonatal germinal matrix hemorrhage and incidence of hydrocephalus requiring cerebrospinal fluid diversion in a substantially rural patient population

Anthony V. Nguyen, Bronson M. Ciavarra, Sarah-Marie C. Gonzalez, Jose M. Soto, Eric R. Trumble

Low-cost acrylic cranioplasty using an implant cast on a pre-printed 3D polylactic acid model in a child with a complicated osteolytic extradural hydatid cyst

Mehdi Borni, Brahim Kammoun, Marouen Taallah, Souhir Abdelmouleh, Jihen Boughariou, Mohamed Zaher Boudawara

Povidone-iodine-induced scalp lesions in pediatric neurosurgery patients: a case series

David Barkyoumb, Sherwin A. Tavakol, Xiaochun Zhao, Mark E. Stephens, Devin V. Bageac, Ira E. Bowen, Virendra R. Desai

Cranial vault expansion in treatment of paediatric idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Fardad T. Afshari, Guirish A. Solanki, Hadleigh Cuthbert, Jagajeevan Jagadeesan, Amitav Parida, Desiderio Rodrigues

Clinicopathological study of a rare neuroectodermal neoplasm of the cranium

  • Mini Review

Rumela Nayak, S. Rima, Nandeesh BN, Shilpa Rao, Vikas Vazhayil, Nishanth Sadashiva, Sripartha Krishna Yerramilli

Intracranial lobar germinoma presenting with refractory hypernatremia

Mahak Sipani, Gyani Jail Singh Birua, Abhinith Shashidhar, A Arivazhagan, Shilpa Rao, Jitender Saini

A rare case of split notochord syndrome with neurenteric cyst: clinical challenges, surgical approach, and literature review

Ida Barretta, Sofia Musso, Andrea Rossi, Gianluca Piatelli, Marco Pavanello

Prevalence, type, and risk factors of intracranial hemorrhage in term neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Debajyoti Datta, Rikki Chisvin, Albert Tu

Bibliometric analysis of the top 100 most cited articles on the immunotherapy for glioblastoma

Chunming He, Peng Xiong, Chuan Zeng, Xinyu Qiu, Tao Long, Haimin Song

Correction: Prevalence and associated risk factors of intraventricular hemorrhage in preterm newborns in Southwestern Iran

  • Correction

Zahra Hashemi, Mohammad Safari Sarook, Roya Oboodi, Mozhgan Moghtaderi, Sara Mostafavi

Implausible, not impossible: delayed supradiaphragmatic thoracic migration of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt in a 17-month-old

Ioan-Alexandru Florian, Paula Topal, Teodora-Larisa Florian, Dragos Font, Ioan-Stefan Florian

Immediate postoperative course in the pediatric intensive care unit following epilepsy surgery

Itay Ayalon, Shirley Friedman, Barak Meidan, Efraim Sadot, Shlomi Constantini, Shimrit Uliel-Sibony, Jonathan Roth

Neurophysiological identification and differentiation between the motor and sensory roots in pediatric spinal cord lipoma surgery

Katharina Lutz, Timothy Müller, Sebastian Grunt, Cordula Scherer, Martin U. Schuhmann, Mazen Zeino, Sonja Vulcu, Arsany Hakim, Jonathan Wermelinger, Pablo Abel Alvarez Abut, Katarzyna Pospieszny, Andreas Raabe, Philippe Schucht, Kathleen Seidel

Holocord intramedullary pilocytic astrocytoma mimicking holocord spinal abscess: a case report and literature review

Duygu Dolen, Cafer Ikbal Gulsever, Merve Erguven, Gokcen Unverengil, Pulat Akin Sabanci

Technique and protocol for bedside neuroendoscopic lavage for post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus: technical note

Tracy M. Flanders, Misun Hwang, Nickolas W. Julian, Christina E. Sarris, John J. Flibotte, Sara B. DeMauro, David A. Munson, Lauren M. Heimall, Yong C. Collins, Jena M. Bamberski, Meghan A. Sturak, Eo V. Trueblood, Gregory G. Heuer

The role of stem cells in the management of neonatal posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus

Christodoulos Komiotis, Ioannis Mavridis

Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG)-guided insula resections: is it “Reily” worth it?

J. Pepper, S. Seri, A. R. Walsh, S. Agrawal, L. Macpherson, A. Sudarsanam, W. B. Lo

Does machine learning improve prediction accuracy of the Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Success Score? A contemporary Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network cohort study

Armaan K. Malhotra, Abhaya V. Kulkarni, Leonard H. Verhey, Ron W. Reeder, Jay Riva-Cambrin, Hailey Jensen, Ian F. Pollack, Michael McDowell, Brandon G. Rocque, Mandeep S. Tamber, Patrick J. McDonald, Mark D. Krieger, Jonathan A. Pindrik, Albert M. Isaacs, Jason S. Hauptman, Samuel R. Browd, William E. Whitehead, Eric M. Jackson, John C. Wellons III, Todd C. Hankinson, Jason Chu, David D. Limbrick Jr., Jennifer M. Strahle, John R. W. Kestle

Hyperostotic meningiomas in children. A case-based update

Fulvio Grilli, Hamzah Youssef Smaili, Federico Bianchi, Paolo Frassanito, Gianpiero Tamburrini, Luca Massimi

Progressive spontaneous regression of Chiari type I malformation associated with syringomyelia

Diogo Goulart Corrêa, Luiz Celso Hygino da Cruz Jr.

Surgical treatment of neonatal brachial plexus palsy: A cohort study using the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database

Molly F. MacIsaac, Joshua M. Wright, Nicole K. Le, Lee G. Phillips, Allan J. Belzberg, S. Alex Rottgers, Jordan N. Halsey

Primary Ewing’s Sarcoma affecting the Central Nervous System: A single-center experience and Narrative review

Sivaraman Kumarasamy, Kanwaljeet Garg, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Amandeep Kumar, Rajeev Sharma, Shweta Kedia, Shashwat Mishra, Sachin Borkar, Dattaraj Parmanad Sawarkar, Satish Kumar Verma, Subhash Gupta, Gurudutta Satyarthee, Ajay Garg, Meher C. Sharma, Rajinder Kumar, Manmohan Singh, Ashish Suri, Poodipedi Sarat Chandra, Shashank Sharad Kale

Surgical outcomes of tethered cord syndrome in patients with normal conus medullaris and filum terminale without urologic symptoms

Alper Tabanli, Emrah Akcay, Hakan Yilmaz, Seymen Ozdemir, Mesut Mete, Mehmet Selcuki

Relationship between the volume of ventricles, brain parenchyma and neurocognition in children after hydrocephalus treatment

Qinzhu Yang, Kun Huang, Gongwei Zhang, Xianjun Li, Yi Gao, Cailei Zhao

Mechanisms of hydrocephalus after intraventricular haemorrhage: a review

Wenchao Wu, Qingsong Li

Subarachnoid puncture via the anterior fontanelle with intrathecal vancomycin for refractory purulent meningitis: a pediatric case report

Yan Li, Xinghui Yang, Yongping Xie, Guolan Huang, Xiaohui Fang, Lisu Huang

Development of a machine learning model for prediction of intraventricular hemorrhage in premature neonates

  • Research

Emad Saeedi, Mojtaba Mashhadinejad, Amin Tavallaii

Spinal intradural malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor at the foramen magnum in a non-neurofibromatosis child

Madhivanan Karthigeyan, Goutham Varma, Debajyoti Chatterjee, Sai Shiva Tadakamalla, Pravin Salunke, Rajeev Goel

Open versus endoscopic surgery with helmet molding therapy in non-syndromic patients with craniosynostosis: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes and treatment-related costs

Omar R. Ortega-Ruiz, Mauricio Torres-Martínez, Mariana Villafranca-Cantú, Rebeca Alejandra Ávila-Cañedo, Emilio Piñeyro-Cantú, Eduardo Menchaca-Welsh, Nir Shimony, George I. Jallo, Javier Terrazo-Lluch, J. Javier Cuéllar-Hernández

Does new research address persistent questions since the publication of the CDC’s 2018 pediatric mTBI guideline

Rebecca Dann, Ankita Das, Alexandria Naftchi, Brinda Raval, Eris Spirollari, OluwaToba Akinleye, Sima Vazquez, Allison Zhong, Jose F. Dominguez, Jared Pisapia, Carrie Muh, Rachana Tyagi

Bedside transfontanelle drain placement reduces the need for operative intervention in infants with subdural fluid collections

Julia Pazniokas, William Harris, Mohammed Alshareef, Allyson L. Alexander, Todd C. Hankinson, Michael H. Handler, C. Corbett Wilkinson, Derek C. Samples

Same-day discharge after intracranial shunt revision: a retrospective propensity-matched safety analysis

David S. Bailey, Lekhaj Daggubati, Sarah Strausser, Madelaine Fritsche, Morgan Lehman, Elias B. Rizk

Clinical and radiologic criteria to predict endoscopic third ventriculostomy success in non-communicating pediatric hydrocephalus

Davit Tatoshvili, Andreas Schaumann, Anna Tietze, Valentina Pennacchietti, Gesa Cohrs, Matthias Schulz, Ulrich-W. Thomale

Traumatic pediatric cervical spine injury—a proposed clearance algorithm incorporating a 24-h time delay

Victoria E. Fischer, Vaidehi M. Mahadev, Jacob A. Bethel, Jaime A. Quirarte, Robert J. Hammack, Cristian Gragnaniello, Izabela Tarasiewicz

Endoscopic-assisted versus open fronto-orbital distraction for unicoronal craniosynostosis: morphometric and technique considerations

Meagan Wu, Connor S. Wagner, Dillan F. Villavisanis, Jinggang J. Ng, Benjamin B. Massenburg, Dominic J. Romeo, Gregory G. Heuer, Scott P. Bartlett, Jordan W. Swanson, Jesse A. Taylor

Successful endoscopic third ventriculostomy in a patient with 40 years of ventriculoperitoneal shunt dependency since infancy: a case report

Daisuke Kita, Yasuhiro Aida, Fumihide Enkaku

Selective dorsal rhizotomy outcomes in mixed spasticity and dystonia cases

Ahmed Aly, Mostafa Elmaghraby, Andrew Dapaah, Benjamin Hall, Christine Sneade, Benedetta Pettorini

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy with or without choroid plexus cauterization for preventing shunt dependence in pediatric hydrocephalus: preliminary results of a prospective clinical case series in a lower-middle-income country (Egypt)

Osama Aglan, Assem M. Abdel–Latif, Abdelrahman El Gayar, Mohamed M. Aziz, Ashraf G. Al-Abyad, Benjamin C. Warf

Multinodular and vacuolating posterior fossa lesions of unknown significance: a long-term observational study and literature review

  • Mini Review

Yuki Yasuoka, Fumiyuki Yamasaki, Iori Ozono, Shumpei Onishi, Akira Taguchi, Ushio Yonezawa, Nobutaka Horie

Congenital extraventricular neurocytoma with atypical features in a 3-day-old neonate

Sho Matsunaga, Yusuke Kimura, Yukinori Akiyama, Masaki Yamamoto, Nobuhiro Mikuni

Cervical spine considerations in Goldenhar syndrome: a clinical perspective

Sumana Gadiraju, Gregg A. Jacob, Catherine A. Mazzola

Methodology for pediatric head computed tomography image segmentation and volumetric calculation using a tablet computer and stylus pen

H. Hashimoto, M. Shimada, O. Takemoto, Y. Chiba

Illustrations of the pineal gland in Descartes' oeuvre

  • Correspondence

Douglas J. Lanska

The EMT status in the primary tumor of adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma predict postoperative recurrence in children

K. Bajdak-Rusinek, N. Diak, E. Gutmajster, A. Fus-Kujawa, K. L. Stępień, W. Wójtowicz, M. Kalina, M. Mandera

Osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma of the cervical spine in the pediatric population: analysis of the literature and experience with four operated cases

Alexandru Szathmari, Laryssa Crystinne Azevedo Almeida, Pierre-Aurélien Beuriat, Camilla de Laurentis, Matthieu Vinchon, Federico Di Rocco

Preoperative coagulopathy and blood transfusion requirements in children with intraventricular lesions undergoing neurosurgery: a retrospective cohort study

Mathangi Krishnakumar, Shweta Naik, Amit Goyal, Archana Sharma, Sriganesh Kamath, V. Vikas, Pallavi Pandey

Pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas- a prospective observational study from a tertiary care neurosurgical center

Aprajita Chaturvedi, Nishanth Sadashiva, Sathyarao Kalahasti, Subhas Konar, Uday Krishna, Prabhuraj AR, Dhaval Shukla, Manish Beniwal, Nupur Pruthi, Arivazhagan Arimappamagan, Jitender Saini, Shilpa Rao, Vani Santosh

Evaluation of the ETV success score and its predictive value in pediatric occlusive hydrocephalus: implications for patient counseling

Matthias Krause, Daniel Gräfe, Roman Metzger, Christoph J. Griessenauer, Janina Gburek-Augustat

Cerebellar pilocytic astrocytoma: predictors of recurrence based on MRI morphology—a single-centre experience

Katherina Grin, Amedeo Azizi, Christine Haberler, Andreas Peyrl, Gregor Kasprian, Thomas Czech, Karl Rössler, Johannes Gojo, Christian Dorfer

Cervical spinal decompression and fusion in the setting of Wolcott-Rallison Syndrome: a rare pediatric indication and its surgical considerations

Victor M. Lu, James V. Boddu, Allan D. Levi

Role of global neurosurgery in tackling pediatric brain tumors: an insight

Zubayer Shams, Ismail Bozkurt, Bipin Chaurasia

Cerebral cavernous malformation with associated Streptococcus pyogenes abscess in a child: a case report and literature review

Matthew I. Sanders, Veejay Bagga, Patricia de Lacy, Shungu Ushewokunze

Management of neonatal cephalohematoma and ossified cephalhematoma —281 cases of personal 10-year experience

Min Xi, Hangyu Shi, Gang Zhang

Detailed analysis of cystic lesions in patients after open fetal repair and postnatal myelomeningocele closure

  • Open Access
  • Research

Sanjana R. Salwi, Sierra D. Land, Taryn Gallagher, Tom A. Reynolds, Deborah M. Zarnow, Angela Viaene, Julie S. Moldenhauer, N. Scott Adzick, Tracy M. Flanders, Gregory G. Heuer

Correction: Technique and protocol for bedside neuroendoscopic lavage for post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus: technical note

Tracy M. Flanders, Misun Hwang, Nickolas W. Julian, Christina E. Sarris, John J. Flibotte, Sara B. DeMauro, David A. Munson, Lauren M. Heimall, Yong C. Collins, Jena M. Bamberski, Meghan A. Sturak, Eo V. Trueblood, Gregory G. Heuer

Conservative management of pediatric pineal cyst apoplexy: a case report and literature review

Fırat Demir, Suat Demir, Fikret Baskan

Subdural hematoma as a complication of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in a pediatric patient: a case report and literature review

Rafael Tiza Fernandes, Rui Sobrinho, Miguel Azevedo, Mário Matos, Amets Sagarribay, Dalila Forte

Meningeal melanocytoma of the central nervous system in children

Lukasz Antkowiak, Jerzy Luszawski, Wieslawa Grajkowska, Joanna Trubicka, Marek Mandera

Letters to editor regarding the article “Outcomes of surgical revascularization for pediatric moyamoya disease and syndrome”

Ruirui Liu, Zhe Hu, Yuge Chen, Shangkuan Liu

Intracranial hydatid cyst in a pediatric patient: a rare mimic of brain malignancy

Hemlata Jangir, Charli Roy, Sarvesh Goyal, Achal S. Goindi, Shweta Kedia, Vaishali Suri

Survival and toxicity outcomes of hypofractionated conformal radiotherapy compared to conventionally fractionated radiotherapy in the treatment of diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas

Abhilash Dagar, Adrija Ghosh, Aashita, Akash Kumar, Yousra Izzuddeen K. N., Karun Kamboj, Aman Sharma, Jaswin Raj, Dayanand Sharma, Supriya Mallick

A survey of paediatric epilepsy surgery in Asia and Australasia

Peter Heppner

Description of a monstrous little girl born in the Verona area on June 14, 1789

  • Forum

Carlo Mazza, Francesca Siddi, Francesco Sala

Transcranial electrical evoked muscle potentials for pediatric neurosurgery: scoping review of stimulation techniques and success rates

Axel Fudickar, Kai Berndt, Klaus Novak

Giant encephalocele in newborns: prenatal diagnosis, management and outcome

Suhair Qudsieh, Moh’d M. Barbarawi, Hana’ Qudsieh, Lara Barbaraw

Long-term epidemiological trends in (primary) pediatric central nervous system tumors: a 25-year cohort analysis in Western Mexico

Víctor Ulises Rodríguez-Machuca, Eduardo Jahir Ángulo-De La Cruz, Ana Lucía Gaxiola-Sarmiento, Juan Antonio Ramírez-Corona, David Fernández-Sánchez, Luis Angel Arredondo-Navarro, Héctor Velázquez-Santana, Santiago Nuñez-Velasco, Regina Mallinalli Navarro-Martín Del Campo, Felipe De Jesús Bustos-Rodríguez, Jorge Román Corona-Rivera, Lucina Bobadilla-Morales, Alfredo Corona-Rivera

Comparative analysis of treatment modalities for pediatric spinal cord glioblastoma: insights from a meta-analysis

Artur Henrique Galvao Bruno Da Cunha, Pedro Lucas Negromonte Guerra, Inaê Carolline Silveira da Silva, Deoclides Lima Bezerra Júnior, Eduardo Vieira de Carvalho Júnior

Comparison of failure rates between full-barium and striped barium distal shunt catheters: a matched case–control study

Sage P. Rahm, Nicholas M. B. Laskay, Samuel G. McClugage III, Joshua D. Jackson, Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith, Curtis J. Rozzelle, Brandon G. Rocque

Primary diffuse leptomeningeal atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumours (ATRT) of childhood: a molecularly characterised case report and literature review

S. M. Stivaros, L. M. Parkes, R. Bedir, E. Cheesman, D. Ram, L. Leung, A. Huang, J. P. Kilday

Rare regression of congenital brainstem high-grade glioma: case report and literature review

Shi Hui Ong, Mervyn Jun Rui Lim, Char Loo Tan, Miriam Santiago Kimpo, Balamurugan A. Vellayappan, Ai Peng Tan, Cynthia Hawkins, James Rutka, Vincent Diong Weng Nga

Do routine antibiotics change the myelomeningocele infection rate? A case series

Cilmária Leite Franco, Jairo Porfirio de Oliveira Júnior, Bárbara Albuquerque Morais, Nayara Matos Pereira, Vicente Porfírio Pessoa Junior, Jordana Rodovalho Gontijo Germano, Ana Clara Tavares de Melo, Paulo Ronaldo Jubé Ribeiro

Intraoperative neuromonitoring is not a useful adjunct for Chiari malformation decompressive surgery: a cost–benefit and legal analysis

Mayur S. Patel, Kathleen S. Botterbush, Tyler N. Lackland, Michael Prim, Noor Al-Hammadi, Matthew Shorey, Tobias A. Mattei, Philippe A. Mercier

Prospective analysis on possible changes of cognitive functions in children on follow-up for brain tumor

Ilaria Liguoro, Chiara Pilotto, Francesco Tuniz, Maristella Toniutti, Paola Cogo, Tiziana Zilli

Reflexive symbolism: The extensor cutaneous plantar reflex in Cabanel’s The birth of Venus

  • Correspondence

Francesco Brigo

Spinal epidural lipomatosis in pediatric medulloblastoma following chemotherapy, a case report and review of the literature

Mandisa L. Keswa, Hung N. Tran, Darian R. Esfahani

Medical management of cerebellar mutism syndrome at a quaternary children’s hospital

Emily Xu, Emily Zhang, Kristen Park, Mahaa Ayub, Chao Zhao, Jimmy W. Huh, J. Michael King, Iris Paltin, Amish C. Shah, Phillip B. Storm, Alexander Tucker, Peter J. Madsen, Shih-Shan Lang

Surgical complication index for pediatric patients (SCIPP): A novel pediatric frailty index predicting postoperative complications in a study of 133 pediatric neurosurgical patients

Eeshan Khurana, Justice Welch, John Collins, Adam Ammar, Catherine A. Mazzola

Reducing radiation exposure in pediatric cervical spine imaging for trauma: a multi-disciplinary quality improvement initiative

Nina Yu, Jonathan Emerson Kohler, Kendra Grether-Jones, Maureen Murphy, Marike Zwienenberg

Endoscopic management of pediatric complex hydrocephalus—a procedure survival analysis and clinico-radiological outcome study using ventricular volumetry

Kevin Jude Sudevan, Subhas K. Konar, Dhaval P. Shukla, Nishanth Sadashiva, Mohammed Nadeem

Efficacy and safety of dabrafenib plus trametinib in pediatric versus adult gliomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Bardia Hajikarimloo, Salem M. Tos, Mohammadamin Sabbagh Alvani, Alireza Kooshki, Arman Hasanzade, Amir Hossein Zare, Amir Hessam Zare, Dorsa Najari, Mohammad Amin Habibi

Validating the modified Canadian Preoperative Prediction Rule for Hydrocephalus for accurate hydrocephalus prediction in a statewide pediatric brain tumor cohort

Barnabas Obeng-Gyasi, Trenton A. Line, Anoop S. Chinthala, Jignesh Tailor

Epidemiology of pediatric thoracolumbar spinal fractures and associated injuries: a single-center experience

  • Research

Habibullah Dolgun, Muhammed Erkan Emrahoğlu, Erdal Reşit Yılmaz, Mustafa Kavcar, Atakan Besnek, Ahmet Serkan Özcan, Emrah Egemen, Mehmet Erhan Türkoğlu

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence of pediatric intracranial empyemas in Spain

Marina Fidalgo de la Rosa, Gregorio Catalán Uribarrena, Pablo Martín Munarriz, Sara Iglesias Moroño, Marc Valera Melé, Juana María Vidal Miñano, Alicia Godoy Hurtado, María Elena López García, Marta Guzmán, Cristina Ferreras García, Dalila Forte

Impact of choroid plexus coagulation on the success of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in children with hydrocephalus: a single-center retrospective observational cohort study

Artur Henrique Galvao Bruno da Cunha, Marcelo Moraes Valença, Pedro Lucas Negromonte Guerra, Inaê Carolline Silveira da Silva

Spinal rhabdomyosarcoma in a child at the site of a lumbosacral lipoma: a rare entity

Francesca Vitulli, Panduranga Seetahal-Maraj, Islam Adbelfattah, Paola Angelini, Julie Chandra, Jean Marie U-King-Im, Andrew King, Difei Wang, Cristina Bleil, Bassel Zebian

Pediatric cerebral ganglioglioma epilepsy surgery: enhancing seizure outcomes through optimized resection applying high-field intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging

Arthur R. Kurzbuch, Ben Cooper, John Kitchen, Andrea McLaren, Volker Tronnier, Jonathan R. Ellenbogen

Management of pediatric brachial plexus injuries: A cohort study utilizing the trauma quality improvement program (TQIP) database

  • Research

Molly F. MacIsaac, Raissa Li, Kinsey A. Rice, Lee G. Phillips, Allan J. Belzberg, Christopher W. Snyder, S. Alex Rottgers, Jordan N. Halsey

Posterior fossa astroblastoma: a case report of an extremely rare tumor with challenging diagnosis in a child and a review of literature

Ehab Shabo, Saida Zoubaa, Gerrit H. Gielen, Ralf Clauberg, Christian Wispel, Torsten Pietsch, Hartmut Vatter, Sevgi Sarikaya-Seiwert

Indirect bypass for revascularization in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome: an illustrative case

Sunny Abdelmageed, Nicole Villalba, Jonathan Scoville, Joshua Baker, Ali Shaibani, Noopur Gangopadhayay, Jennifer McGrath, Sandi Lam

Intra-tumoral hemorrhage after endoscopic third ventriculostomy in a child with WNT-activated medulloblastoma: case report and literature review

Pietro Spennato, Massimiliano Porzio, Lucia De Martino, Alessia Imperato, Giulia Meccariello, Giuseppe Cinalli

Managing hydrocephalus in 54 infants under 3 months of age: A single center cohort study

S. R. M. Van Rijen, F. Groenendaal, K. S. Han, M. L. Tataranno, P. A. Woerdeman

Resting-state functional MRI in pediatric epilepsy: a narrative review

Daniel P. Sexton, James T. Voyvodic, Elizabeth Tong, Edna Andrews, Gerald A. Grant

Neuroimaging of middle cerebral artery anomalies: a report of three cases

Marialuisa Zedde, Thanh N. Nguyen, Mohamad Abdalkader, Rosario Pascarella

Safety and efficacy of the novel subfascial with umbilicus detachment technique for intrathecal baclofen therapy in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy and low body mass index

  • Research

Pier Francesco Costici, Rosa Russo, Paolo Brigato, Sergio De Salvatore, Andrea Vescio, Leonardo Oggiano, Fabrizio Donati

The potential impact of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring on neurological function outcomes after postnatal spina bifida repair

Matthias Krause, Florian Leibnitz, Matthias Manfred Knüpfer, Andreas Merkenschlager, Christoph J. Griessenauer, Janina Gburek-Augustat

Neurosurgical site infections: a retrospective monocentric study of pediatric brain tumor patients

Giorgia Enrico, Eleonora Fusco, Matteo Palmetti, Federico Mussa, Iacopo Sardi, Elena Chiappini, Luisa Galli, Elisabetta Venturini

Posterior vault encephaloceles: from antenatal management to post-surgical follow-up—a cooperative study

Claudia Pasquali, Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale, Alexandru Szathamri, Pier Aurelien Beuriat, Valentina Pennacchietti, Mélodie Anne Karnoub, Matthieu Vinchon, Federico Di Rocco

Flexion–extension cervical MRI imaging in pediatric patients with achondroplasia unsupervised by neurosurgery or radiology, is it safe?

Aseel Masarwy, Christopher Watterson, Alexander Tuchman, Moise Danielpour

Corpus callosotomy for intractable epilepsy in the pediatric population: value of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring

Madison M. Patrick, Heba Azouz, Samer K. Elbabaa

Pediatric neurosurgery without pediatric neurosurgeons: a comparison of outcomes of pediatric brain tumor resections in Pakistan with a national US surgical database

Hunaina Abid, Yusra Imran, Humza Thobani, Saqib Kamran Bakhshi, Amna Minhas, Mohammad Osama Khan, Tanya Minasian, Saleem Islam, Faraz Ali Khan

Effective bilateral neuroendoscopic approach for managing intermittent triventricular hydrocephalus with septated choroid plexus cysts of the third ventricle: a case report and comprehensive literature review

A. Awaf, T. Alghassab, M. Jarebi

Surgical treatment of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex—an institutional experience and results

Mia Tuft, Ylva Østby Berger, Pål Bache Marthinsen, Bernt Johan Due-Tønnessen, Radek Frič

Treatments for obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to malignant midline intracranial tumors during the perioperative period — a retrospective study of 372 pediatric patients from a single institution

Jingzhe Yuan, Haoqi Zeng, Kaiyu Fan, Xu Han, Jian Gong, Yunwei Ou

Postoperative word-finding difficulties in children with posterior fossa tumours: a crosslinguistic European cohort study

K. Persson, J. Grønbæk, I. Tiberg, Å. Fyrberg, C. Castor, B. Andreozzi, R. Frič, P. Hauser, R. Kiudeliene, C. Mallucci, R. Mathiasen, P. Nyman, B. Pizer, A. Sehested, D. Boeg Thomsen

Spontaneous regression of epileptogenic pilocytic astrocytoma with FGFR1-TACC1 fusion

Ko Horikoshi, Yasushi Iimura, Hiroharu Suzuki, Mario Suzuki, Hidenori Sugano, Akihide Kondo

Clinical and surgical outcomes of pediatric Cushing’s disease following endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery

Guive Sharifi, Elham Paraandavaji, Mohammad Mehdi Mousavi Nasab, Esmaeil Mohammadi, Neginalsadat Sadeghi, Seyed Mohammad Tavangar, Mohammad Reza Mohajeri Tehrani, Nader Akbari Dilmaghani

Endoscopic endonasal versus open approach for craniopharyngioma treatment: a systematic review of clinical characteristics

Geena Jung, Joshua M. Cohen, David Oriko, Emery Buckner-Wolfson, Timothy Kim, Genesis Liriano, Andrew J. Kobets

Pial arteriovenous fistula with a large intraparenchymal hemorrhage in a 9-year-old child: a case report and case-based mini review

Manina M. Etter, Raphael Guzman, Marios-Nikos Psychogios, Jehuda Soleman

Selective dorsal rhizotomy from indication to rehabilitation: a worldwide survey

Liza M. M. van Dijk, K. Mariam Slot, Tom F. Novacheck, Annemieke I. Buizer, Nelleke G. Langerak, Kristian Aquilina, Xiao Bo, Johannes M. N. Enslin, Jennifer Lewis, Robert P. Lamberts, Nobuhito Morota, Pam Thomason, Simon P. Paget, Marcia E. Ward, Neil Wimalasundera, Meredith Wynter

Cost of pediatric traumatic brain injury in developing countries: a retrospective cohort study

Aisha Nasser Al Fudhaili, Sara Salim Al Mashrafi, Ahad Nasser Al Ghammari, Aisha Khalifa Al Saadi, Fatema Taheri Boriawala, Tariq Al-Saadi

Cerebellar tonsillar contusion in traumatic brain injury: an atypical presentation of previously undiagnosed Chiari I malformation

Debajyoti Datta, David McAuley, Albert Tu

Giant frontonasal encephalocele: surgical considerations through a clinical case and literature review

Gisela Pascuetín, Guido Gromadzyn, Yamila Basilotta Márquez, Rodrigo Blanco, Juan Asselborn, Romina Argañaraz

Management of pediatric quadrigeminal arachnoid cysts: a systematic review and illustrative case report

Emmanuel K. Adjei Osei, Kwadwo Darko, Pearl Tenkorang, Maame A. D. Boateng, Nana A. B. O. Sekyere, Bernice Limann, Oluruntoba Ogunfolaji, Sean O’Leary, Umaru Barrie, Teddy Totimeh

Maintenance of construct integrity with subaxial cervical pedicle screws when crossing the cervicothoracic junction in complex pediatric deformity: an international multicenter study

  • Research

David B. Kurland, Ritt R. Givens, Alondra Concepción-González, Alexander Eremiev, Yosef Dastagirzada, Nikita Alexiades, Benjamin D. Roye, Michael G. Vitale, Richard C. E. Anderson

A pre-operative gastrointestinal optimization protocol to improve outcomes after intrathecal baclofen pump surgery

Amanda M. Mosher, Emma K. Hartman, Marcella Ruppert-Gomez, Steven J. Staffa, Kristin Buxton, Ann Morgan, Sangeeta Muskar, Scellig Stone, Weston T. Northam

Inpatient outcomes in pediatric diffuse axonal injury: high mortality in severe TBI and limited impact of Grade III DAI

Sean Inzerillo, Mert Karabacak, Peter Morgenstern, Konstantinos Margetis

Beyond the expected: a supratentorial ependymoma imitating a meningioma

Hafsah Binte Sohail, Noman Ahmed, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Naureen Mushtaq

Timeliness of surgical repair among infants with myelomeningocele in a tertiary care hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Kibruyisfaw Zewdie, Bethelehem Yesehak, Amanda Dorsey, Yemisirach Bizuneh Akililu, Addisalem Belete, Yordanos Ashagre, Yakob Ahmed, Patricia O. O’Neill, Vijaya Kancherla

Giant calvarial metastasis from secondary Ewing sarcoma with chronic subdural hygroma in a childhood hematological cancer survivor — An unusual case report

Praveen Ravichandran, Karthik Nandam, Manoranjithakumari Mani, Sangamithirai K.M., Bheemanathi Hanuman Srinivas

Subdural collections in childhood

José Roberto Tude Melo, Federico Di Rocco

Surgical management of a giant glial hamartoma in a pediatric patient: a case report

Guive Sharifi, Elham Paraandavaji, Shahin Naghizadeh, Yalda Nilipour, Mohammad Ali Kazemi, Sajjad Khanbabazadeh, Farzad Taghizadeh-Hesary

Diencephalic-mesencephalic junction dysplasia: case report and literature review

Tenoch Herrada-Pineda, Ana Karen Perez-Vazquez, Salvador Manrique-Guzman, Francisco R. Revilla-Pacheco, Eduardo Torres-Olivas, Maria Jose Wilches-Davalos, Tania Ivette Sanchez-Zacarias, Gilda Garza-Mayen, Jorge Arturo Cardona-Perez

Can the BIG score reliably predict outcomes in pediatric traumatic brain injury?

Abdulrahman Özel, Servet Yüce, Esma Şengenç, Esra Nur İlbeği, İzzettin Kaya, Şevval Özyılmaz Gazneli, Meltem Erol

Frequency and outcomes of midline gliomas in a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: a retrospective study

Soha Zahid, Farrah Bashir, Ali Mustansir, Khurram Minhas, Bilal Mazhar Qureshi, Kiran Hilal, Syed Ather Enam, Eric Bouffet, Naureen Mushtaq

The state of targeted therapeutic pharmacological approaches in pediatric neurosurgery: report from the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) Consensus Conference 2024

P. Frassanito, U. W. Thomale, M. Obersnel, A. Romano, P. Leblond, F. Knerlich-Lukoschus, B. J. Due-Tønnessen, D. Thompson, F. Di Rocco

5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) in paediatric brain tumour surgery—a systematic review and exploration of fluorophore alternatives

Victoria G. Collins, Charvi Kanodia, Qalisya Binti Yahya, Marianna Liistro, Chandrasekaran Kaliaperumal

Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma stone: is it a tumor?

Sérgio Cavalheiro, Lorena Favaro Pavon, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa, Patrícia Alesssandra Dastoli, Rodrigo Akira Watanabe, Isaque Hyung Tong Kim, Fernando Seiji Suzuki, Flávia Borelli Nascimento, Khallil Taverna Chaim, Francisco Romero Cabral, Silvia Regina Caminada Toledo, Tatiana Tais Sibov

Resective epilepsy surgery in pediatric patients with normal MRI: outcomes, challenges, and cost-effectiveness in low-resource settings

Felipe Gutierrez-Pineda, Manuel Vicente Jaramillo-Canastero, Lucas Lozano-Garcia, Juan Felipe Alvarez-Restrepo, José Fernando Zapata-Berruecos, Héctor Alfredo Jaramillo-Betancur

Maximizing the functional benefits of posterior calvarial vault distraction in syndromic craniosynostoses: a nuanced approach to volume, vein, vector, and the vexed challenge of functional outcome in craniosynostoses

Suhas Udayakumaran, Vinanthi P.V., Pramod Subash, Shibani Nerurkar, Arjun Krishnadas, Ambuj Aggarwal, Sarin Xavier

Evaluating mechanical benefit of wedge osteotomies in endoscopic surgery for sagittal synostosis using patient-specific 3D-printed models: Comment

Hinpetch Daungsupawong, Viroj Wiwanitkit

Juvenile idiopathic scoliosis treated with anterior vertebral body tethering and disc releases: a case report

Amanda Stutman, Emily Nice, Amer Samdani

Correction: Navigated intraoperative ultrasound in pediatric brain tumors

Kevin Klein Gunnewiek, Kirsten M. van Baarsen, Evie H. M. Graus, Wyger M. Brink, Maarten H. Lequin, Eelco W. Hoving

Long-term outcomes and safety of Gamma Knife radiosurgery in pediatric arteriovenous malformations

Abhijit Goyal-Honavar, Dwarakanath Srinivas, Subhas Konar, Nishanth Sadashiva, Manish Beniwal, Andiperumal Raj Prabhuraj, Arivazhagan Arimappamagan, Kannepalli V. L. Narasinga Rao, Sampath Somanna

A retrospective outpatient department-based study of the pattern of first-visit pediatric neurosurgical disorders: a 6-year single-center experience in Ghana

Kwadwo Darko, Bernice Limann, Joseline Haizel-Cobbina, Mabel Banson, Patrick Bankah

Management of sterile abdominal pseudocysts in the context of ventriculoperitoneal shunts: a systematic review

A. Shehaj, T. Harbaugh, H. Wilding, M. Mareboina, M. Newland, E. Rizk

Detailed analysis of hydrocephalus patterns and associated variables in patients after open fetal repair and postnatal myelomeningocele/myeloschisis closure

Adam J. Kundishora, Kamila Bond, Martin Rosenfeld, Sierra D. Land, Taryn Gallagher, Tom A. Reynolds, Juliana S. Gebb, N. Scott Adzick, Tracy M. Flanders, Gregory G. Heuer

Central nervous system tuberculoma in children: tertiary hospital experience in Turkey in the last quarter century

Fatma Tuğba Çetin, Özlem Özgür Gündeşlioğlu, Ömer Kaya, Emel Bakanoğlu, Bedir Kaya, Ümmühan Çay, Derya Alabaz, Nazlı Totik

Prospective review of 30-day morbidity and mortality following surgery for brain tumours in children

E. Campbell, L. Todd, A. Amato-Watkins, R. O’Kane, M. Sangra, M. Canty

Use of orthotic helmets in children with positional plagiocephaly and brachycephaly: a systematic review

Amauri Dalla Corte, Marcelo Anchieta Rohde

A rare case of retained medullary cord with sacral subcutaneous meningocele and thoracic arachnoid cyst

Mohammed Nadeem, Subhas K. Konar, B. N. Nandeesh, Dhaval Shukla

A pediatric case of upward migration of distal shunt catheter followed by outward migration of ventricular catheter

Keisuke Murofushi, Satoshi Tsutsumi, Natsuki Sugiyama, Hideaki Ueno, Hidehiro Okura, Hisato Ishii

Four cases of mechanical thrombectomy in children

Flavio Requejo, Lourdes María Molina

Postoperative fever following hemispherotomy managed with baclofen: unnoticed treatment

Mohammad Elbaroody, Hossam Eldin Mostafa, Salsabil Abo Al-Azayem, Amani Nawito, Nirmeen A. Kishk, Basim Ayoub

Two-year outcomes following modified transsylvian peri-insular hemispherotomy

  • Open Access
  • Epilepsy
  • Original Research

Samuel B. Tomlinson, Kathleen Galligan, Sudha K. Kessler, Benjamin C. Kennedy

Craniopharyngiomas in children: the pendulum moves again for an aggressive surgery—late complications and considerations with a recent series of 26 patients treated in Lyon

Pierre-Aurélien Beuriat, Alexandru Szathmari, Federico Di Rocco, Carine Villanueva, Lucie Bazus, Sara Cabet, Marina Veyrie, Carmine Mottolese

Comparative analysis of bipedicled fasciocutaneous flaps in meningomyelocele repair: influence of perforator preservation on postoperative outcomes and hospitalization duration

Munur Selcuk Kendir, Mehmet Dadaci, Mehmet Fatih Erdi, Ilker Uyar, Zikrullah Baycar, Bilsev Ince

Retro-odontoid mass resolution analysis and timing following posterior cervical spinal fixation: 16-year paediatric neurosurgery experience in a single UK institute

  • Research

Mostafa Elmaghraby, Fardad T. Afshari, Ruben Miranda Cardoso, Azam Ali Baig, Hadleigh J. Cuthbert, Gopiga Thanabalasundaram, Adrian Gardner, Guirish A. Solanki

Novel surgical approach for intraventricular cerliponase alfa enzyme replacement therapy via central venous access device (CVAD) port in neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) disease

Scott Boop, Dominic Nistal, Adriel Barrios-Anderson, W. Bruce Cherny, Irene J. Chang, Emily Shelkowitz, Terry Kho, Hannah E. Goldstein, Jason Hauptman

Craniovertebral lipoma associated with hydrocephalus: report of two cases

Kirill Sysoev, Arina Kulaeva, Dimitrios Tsiptsios, Alexander Kim

Polysomnography analysis of sleep in a cohort of children treated for brain tumour

Pilotto Chiara, Vidoni Michael, Tuniz Francesco, Toniutti Maristella, Patruno Vincenzo, Cogo Paola, Liguoro Ilaria

Severe cervical kyphosis in a complex child with NF1, case report and literature review

Luigi Aurelio Nasto, Ferruccio De Prisco, Enrico Pola, Silverio Perrotta, Giuseppina Miele, Gianluca Piatelli, Claudia Santoro

Are we all seeing the same thing? Discrepancies between parent-reported and physician-reported positional plagiocephaly severity scores

Grace Soojin Ryu, Mary Newland, Andrea Hiller, Elias Rizk, Thomas Samson

Aqueductal glioma surgery via a telovelar approach using sodium fluorescein in a 6-year-old pediatric patient

Sergio Cavalheiro, José Antonio Rangel Quiróz, Patricia Alessandra Dastoli, Isaque Hyung Tong Kim, Fernando Seiji Suzuki, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa

Fathoming the scientific paradox of intangibles: protocol reappraisal for optimizing cognitive outcomes in faciocraniosynostosis—an institutional experience

Suhas Udayakumaran, Shibani Nerurkar, Vinanthi P. V., Arjun Krishnadas, Pramod Subash

A “Smurf-Cap” head requiring total cranial vault reshaping. A novel syndromic presentation of craniofrontonasal dysplasia associated with spina bifida

Maria Fragale, Martina Giordano, Raul Della Valle, Gabriele Canzi, Giuseppe Talamonti

Shaping futures: how surgical timing influences outcomes in endoscopic sagittal craniosynostosis repair

Gabrielle Price, Frederika Rentzeperis, Hannah Price, Peter Taub, Peter Morgenstern

Epidural seeding in medulloblastoma: A rare presentation of tumor seeding

Onur Erdogan, Melih Eröksüz, Yener Şahin, Buket Gedik, Mustafa Sakar, Adnan Dağçınar

Clinical manifestations, imaging characteristics, and surgical outcome of cervical spinal osteochondroma in pediatrics patients: a case base systematic review of an unusual tumor

Ismael Moreno, Gianluca Scalia, Linn Chu, Gustavo Valderrama, Ashley Cole, Marcel Ivanov

Magnetic resonance-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (MRgLITT) for paediatric intracranial cavernous malformations: case series and review of the literature

Giuseppe Mirone, Giulia Meccariello, Francesco Tengattini, Domenico Cicala, Nicola Onorini, Eugenio Covelli, Giuseppe Cinalli

Correction: Can the BIG score reliably predict outcomes in pediatric traumatic brain injury?

Abdulrahman Özel, Servet Yüce, Esma Şengenç, Esra Nur İlbeği, İzzettin Kaya, Şevval Özyılmaz Gazneli, Meltem Erol

Acute ischemic stroke caused by compression of the artery of Percheron by arachnoid cyst

Pietro Spennato, Carmela Palmiero, Daniele Cascone, Lucia De Martino, Giorgia Bruno, Giuseppe Cinalli

Association between orthopedic manifestations and tethered cord release in patients with spina bifida: a survival analysis

Anthony M. Padgett, Abigail Nishikawa, Jun Kit He, Jeffrey P. Blount, Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith, Betsy Hopson, Gerald McGwin, Brandon G. Rocque, Michael J. Conklin

The use of DBS in the treatment of childhood cerebral palsy: a systematic review

Marcelo Anchieta Rohde, Rhaná Carolina Santos, Rafaela Jucá Lindner, Cristiano Mendes Ribeiro, Caroline Saldanha Custódio, Fernando Vélez Feijó, Amauri Dalla Corte

Stereotactic radiosurgery treatment of pediatric arteriovenous malformations: a PRISMA systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Open Access
  • Review

Garrett W. Thrash, Riley Ethan Evans, Yifei Sun, Anne C. Roberts, Cameron Derryberry, Andrew T. Hale, Somnath Das, Hunter Boudreau, Jordan A. George, Travis J. Atchley, Jeffrey P. Blount, Brandon G. Rocque, James M. Johnston, Jesse G. Jones

Spinal epidural abscess in an adolescent male: an unusual etiology and the role of intraoperative ultrasound

Mohammed Amin, Khaled Sidani, Mohamad Housheimy, Sarah Kawtharani, Joelle Hassanieh, Ali Amine

Exploring perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) in the CNS: insights from two case reports and a comprehensive literature review

Rik Demaerel, Brecht Decraene, Pegah Masrori, Lukas Marcelis, Raf Sciot, Philippe Demaerel, Frank Van Calenbergh

Mature hyperdense teratomas in the posterior fossa

Yayi Liu, Lihua Wang, Guangzong Wen, Xuli Li, Xiufeng Song

Myelodysplastic syndrome-post cytotoxic therapy for pediatric low-grade glioma

  • Open Access
  • Glioma
  • Case Report

Phoebe Power, Susannah Payne, Rebecca Walsh, Adam Nelson, Neevika Manoharan

Microsurgical versus endoscopic resection for paediatric colloid cysts: a meta-analysis of surgical outcomes

Anna Prajsnar-Borak, Ilaria Bove, Marco Lorenzetti, Jacopo Berardinelli, Teresa Somma, Francesca Vitulli

Dandy-Walker syndrome: an updated literature review

Maria Isabel Ocampo-Navia, Wilfran Perez-Mendez, Maria Paula Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Chadid-Contreras, Manuel Francisco Vergara

Minimal invasive vertical hemispherotomy in a 2.5-month-old infant with hemispheric Sturge-Weber Syndrome and recurrent status epilepticus using neuronavigation and augmented reality support

Karl Roessler, Jonathan Weiss, Julia Shawarba, Valerie Quinot, Gregor Kasprian, Martin Niederle, Thomas Czech, Florian Mayer, Christian Dorfer, Martha Feucht

Asymptomatic ventriculomegaly in myelomeningocele: a matched cohort study of neuropsychological outcomes across institutions with varying shunt rates

Robin M. Bowman, Rya Muller, Jonathan Scoville, Adrien M. Winning, Allison D. Payne, Alexa Fagan, Caitlin Murray, Jaclyn L. Papadakis, Theresa Meyer, Jack M. Fletcher, Grayson N. Holmbeck

Factors affecting mortality risk in pediatric head injuries in Africa: a meta-analysis

Kwadwo Darko, Bernice Limann, Pearl Ohenewaa Tenkorang, Sonia Pulido, Nina Dwumfour-Poku, Joshua O. Bonsu, Umaru Barrie, Mabel Banson, Teddy Totimeh

PXA-like tumors: prognostic implications

Supriya Bhardwaj, Hemlata Jangir, Swati Singh, Jyotsna Singh, Mehar Chand Sharma, Ashish Suri, Shweta Kedia, Ajay Garg, Chitra Sarkar, Vaishali Suri

Three-dimensional examination of cochlear dimensions in children up to 18 years

Saliha Seda Adanır, Mohammad Al Saadi, İlhan Bahşi̇, Piraye Kervancıoğlu, Vedat Topsakal

Pediatric-type high-grade glioma of the spinal cord in the molecular era: institutional case series and updated systematic review of the literature

Andrew D. Gong, Danielle D. Dang, Omar Awan, Luke Mugge, Hana Yokoi, Adam L. Cohen, Leon Moores

Advancements in MRI application in the morphological development of fetal cerebral venous system: a review

Xueying Zhao, Yimin Cao, Zexi Yi, Meng Li, Yue Sun, Weixin Meng, Lixia Zhou

Sustained response to trametinib in an adult patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 and high-grade glioma

Bertrand Dion, Sayanthen Sathyakumar, Jacob Silverman, Hallie Coltin, Geneviève Legault, Sébastien Perreault, Myreille D’Astous, Nathalie Lessard, Stephan Saikali, Norbert Dion, Sebastiano Lava, Eric Bouffet, Nada Jabado, Samuele Renzi

Presentation and management of neural tube defects in the middle belt of Ghana

Joseline Haizel-Cobbina, Samuel Addy, Derrick Obiri-Yeboah, Kwadwo Darko, Darell A. Addison, Megan E. H. Still, Kwaku Ampofo, Christian Coompson, Dickson Bandoh, Benedict Owusu, Anthony Lamina, Jeffrey P. Blount, James M. Johnston, Michael C. Dewan, Frank Nketiah-Boakye

Intrathecal nicardipine for symptomatic, refractory vasospasm treatment in pediatric patients: a case series

Lucinda Chiu, Jillian Plonsker, Nicole Dayanara Villalba, Michael DeCuypere, Tord Alden, Jonathan Scoville, Sandi Lam

Effectiveness of conus lipoma surgery—a case series

Peter Spazzapan, Tomaž Velnar, Borut Prestor

Indirect surgical revascularization for management of vascular steal phenomenon in high-grade untreatable brain arteriovenous malformations

Vitor Nagai Yamaki, Sanjay Bhate, Vijeya Ganesan, Fergus Robertson, Adam Rennie, Greg James, Adikarige Haritha Dulanka Silva

Pediatric midbrain tectal glioneuronal tumor with intratumoral hemorrhage: a case report and literature review

Marina Takahashi, Takako Yoshioka, Chizuko Haga, Hideki Ogiwara

Heterotopic calcification in a child presenting as acute on chronic myelopathy

Tyler Zeoli, Preethi Reddi, Reena Singh, Benjamin Greene, Michael C. Dewan

Differences in brain development and need for CSF diversion based on MMC level: Comparison between prenatal and postnatal repair

Sasidhar Karuparti, Peter Yang, Gretchen Koller, Amy Bruzek, Kavya Sudanagunta, Mark Mingo, Ashley Dunbar, Kaamya Varagur, Katherine H. Bligard, Jesse Vrecenak, Lindsay Peglar Marsala, Jagruti Anadkat, Tracy M. Flanders, Ali Mian, Jennifer M. Strahle

Focused ultrasound in pediatric neurosurgery: a scoping review of opportunities and challenges

Andrew M. Hersh, Ritvik Jillala, Patrick Kramer, Robert F. Keating, Hasan R. Syed, Chima O. Oluigbo, Mari L. Groves, Amir Manbachi, Nicholas Theodore, Graeme F. Woodworth, Evan Cantor, Patrick B. Senatus, David S. Hersh

Quantitative analysis of intracranial and intraorbital volume changes following craniosynostosis surgery: a retrospective imaging study

Joel John, Subhas Konar, Dhaval Shukla, Neil Manjunath Salian, Dwarakanath Srivinias

Correction: Posterior vault encephaloceles: from antenatal management to post-surgical follow-up—a cooperative study

Claudia Pasquali, Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale, Alexandru Szathamri, Pier Aurelien Beuriat, Valentina Pennacchietti, Mélodie Anne Karnoub, Matthieu Vinchon, Federico Di Rocco

Lymphoid enhancer-binding factor 1 (LEF1): a reliable immunohistochemical predictive marker for WNT-activated medulloblastoma

Manali Ranade, Sridhar Epari, Mamta Gurav, Ayushi Sahay, Prakash Shetty, Maya Prasad, Tejpal Gupta, Girish Chinnaswamy

Endoscopic assessment of ventricular anomalies diagnosed by MRI in hydrocephalus associated with myelomeningocele

Ahmed Zaher, Mohamed Badran, Mohamed Abdelbari Mattar, Islam Elzahaby, Mostafa Elmansy

Commentary on: “Use of orthotic helmets in children with positional plagiocephaly and brachycephaly: a systematic review”

  • Correspondence

Venkata Dileep Kumar Veldi, Rachana Mehta, Ranjana Sah

The repair of large meningomyelocele defects using perforator artery-based non-island fasciocutaneous flaps

Necati Ucler, Recep Anlatıcı

Neuropsychological outcome in pediatric brain tumor survivors treated with proton radiation prior to age 4 years

Tina Thomas, Mary E. Witt, Casey L. Evans, Julie A. Grieco, Torunn I. Yock, Margaret B. Pulsifer

Surgical strategies in pediatric craniopharyngioma—really a “pendulum” of surgical radicality or rather an evolution towards preserving the long-term quality of life?

Radek Frič, Bernt Johan Due-Tønnessen, Raphael Guzman, Shlomi Constantini

29th Congress of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) London-United Kingdom, 11-14 May 2025

Effectiveness of vagus nerve stimulation in Dravet syndrome: a case series

Emily E. Harford, William P. Welch, Ruba Al-Ramadhani, Taylor J. Abel

Developing a novel medulloblastoma diagnostic with miRNA biomarkers and machine learning

Chloe Wang, Valentina L. Kouznetsova, Santosh Kesari, Igor F. Tsigelny

Surgical approaches for pediatric colloid cysts: insights from a systematic review of techniques, outcomes, and global practice patterns

Ahmed ElSharaawy, Younis Al-Mufargi, Ahmed Al-Wahaibi, Alaa Alsharawy, Adhalia Al-Shuaili, Tariq Al-Saadi

Imaging features of polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumors of the young: a case series

Xinyao Wang, Qiufeng Yin, Shijie Liu, Heng Zhao, Haibo Zhang

Plasma levels of biomarkers associated with vasodilation and neuroinflammation in pediatric patients with head trauma and their relationship with clinical characteristics of patients

Yasemin Baranoglu Kilinc, Yasar Dagistan, Erkan Kilinc

Whole exome-based variant profiling and functional network characterization in neural tube defects

  • Research

Nermin Akcali, Saliha Handan Yildiz, Mujgan Ozdemir Erdogan, Sajjad Eslamkhah, Muhsin Elmas, Aysen Pehlivan, Mustafa Solak

Clinical impact of fetal sac size on closed neural tube defects

Sierra D. Land, Taryn Gallagher, Sanjana R. Salwi, Tom A. Reynolds, Leny Mathew, Edward R. Oliver, Dana A. Weiss, Tracy M. Flanders, Juliana S. Gebb, N. Scott Adzick, Gregory G. Heuer

Pediatric meningioma and seizures: A scoping review

Emma Ye, Ashwin Gupta, Alexander T. Lyons, Shilpa B. Reddy, Devang J. Pastakia, Michael C. Dewan

Outpatient Follow-up After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury at an Urban Safety Net Hospital: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Eric A. Grin, Aarti Kishore Jain, Hannah Weiss, Asmita Mittal, Gaddah Abouzein, Paul Huang, Sandra Tomita, Eveline Teresa Hidalgo

Neurologic outcomes in patients with skeletal dysplasias undergoing cervical fusion and occipitocervical fusion

John P. Avendano, Tej D. Azad, William ElNemer, Paul D. Sponseller, Mari L. Groves

MRI-based, three-dimensionally assessed tumor burden and growth velocity to predict visual acuity deterioration in optic pathway glioma — results of a retrospective longitudinal analysis

David Gorodezki, Felix Tonagel, Julian Zipfel, Markus Mezger, Karin Haas-Lude, Ursula Holzer, Thomas Nägele, Martin Ulrich Schuhmann, Martin Ebinger

Glucocorticoid use in paediatric posterior fossa tumour surgery and the occurrence of postoperative speech impairment

Rebekka Sarup, Aske F. Laustsen, Martin K. Sørensen, Conor Mallucci, Barry Pizer, Kristian Aquilina, Emanuela Molinari, Magnus Aasved Hjort, Radek Frič, Per Nyman, Magnus Sabel, Pelle Nilsson, Algimantas Matukevičius, Peter Hauser, Katalin Mudra, Andrea Carai, Julian Zipfel, Eelco Hoving, Kirsten van Baarsen, Vladimír Beneš IIIrd, Andreas Peyrl, Karsten Nysom, Astrid Marie Sehested, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Marianne Juhler, Jonathan K. Grønbæk, René Mathiesen

Surgical outcomes of third ventriculostomy using neuronavigation-guided new modified endoscopic approach: a series of 11 patients

Erdinç Özek, Anas Abdallah, Serkan Kitis, Mustafa Aziz Hatiboglu

Long-term neurocognitive and behavioral outcomes in patients with non-syndromic craniosynostosis

Jacqueline Ihnat, Kevin Gao Hu, Jeremy Goss, Omar Allam, Neil Parikh, Melanie Vassallo, Linda Mayes, John Persing, Michael Alperovich

Analysis of craniospinal hydrodynamics in infants with hydrocephalus after preterm intraventricular hemorrhage

Cyrille Capel, Margaux Aye, Jean-Marc Constans, Johann Peltier, Catherine Gondry-Jouet, Olivier Balédent

Highlighting posterior cranial vault expansion remodeling for treating various types of craniosynostosis in children

Yi Yuan, Zhihui Li, Fei Gao, Weili Xu, Yong Sun, Zong Jian An

Paediatric idiopathic syringomyelia — a follow-up of radiological and clinical outcomes into adulthood

Rosa Sun, Pritsana Punyawai, Navin Furtado, Fardad T. Afshari, Pasquale Gallo

A global survey of neurosurgeons’ awareness of neural tube defect prevalence, prevention strategies, and their clinical time allocation to spina bifida care

Anastasia Arynchyna-Smith, Vijaya Kancherla, Inmaculada Aban, Alexander Arynchyn, Pedram Maleknia, David Becker, Andrzej Kulczycki, Jeffrey P. Blount

Vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations: retrospective evaluation of endovascular treatment outcomes

Sanubar Nazarli, Cafer Ikbal Gulsever, Duran Sahin, Mehmet Barburoglu, Serra Sencer, Altay Sencer, Aydin Aydoseli

Free intraabdominal catheter management post-VP shunt disconnection in pediatric patients: systematic review

Nazeer Aboud, Lydia Karamani, Sergio Alexander Calero Martinez

Prenatal diagnosis of chiari type 1 malformation

Mariana Dandes, Jerome Massardier, Matthieu Vinchon, Alexandru Szathmari, Pierre Aurélien Beuriat, Federico di Rocco, Laurent Guibaud

Case report: diagnostic challenges of primary central nervous system anaplastic large cell lymphoma, ALK-positive

Abigail E. Weaver, Timothy J. Williamson, Krishnan R. Iyengar, Robert A. Campbell, Michael J. Stuart

Impact of variation in management strategy for ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications on outcomes: a case series–based review

Omotayo A. Ojo, Chiazor U. Onyia

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Letter to the editor regarding “Selective dorsal rhizotomy outcomes in mixed spasticity and dystonia cases”

Leela Kumaran, Sheifali Gupta

Association between age-based blood pressure parameters and outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage in children

Nathan Chang, Diana Poon, Kaitlyn Basnett, May Casazza, Lindsey Rasmussen

Predictors of need for delayed bone flap removal following primary craniotomy for subdural and extradural empyema in the paediatric population

Alexander Lam, Paarth Sinha, Redab Alkhataybeh, Mitul Patel, Guirish A. Solanki, Desiderio Rodrigues, Fardad T. Afshari

Lateral congenital dermal sinuses extending into the spinal canal: case report and review of the literature

Masaomi Takeuchi, Susumu Yamaguchi, Takashi Fujimoto, Hiroko Hayashi, Mitsuto Iwanaga

Clinical and epidemiological profile of neonatal neural tube defects in Turkey: a nationwide retrospective cohort analysis

Serhat Korkmaz, Uğur Bilge

Comparison of behavioral outcomes following cranial vault remodeling versus strip craniectomy for non-syndromic sagittal craniosynostosis

Neil Parikh, Kevin G. Hu, Katelyn Lewis, Martin Kauke-Navarro, Omar Allam, Jeremy A. Goss, Jacqueline M. Ihnat, John A. Persing, Michael S. Golinko, Michael Alperovich

Benign brainstem tumors in children: a retrospective series of 42 patients treated in Lyon

  • Open Access
  • Research

P. A. Beuriat, R. G. Boukaka, A. Szathmari, A. Vasiljevic, F. Di Rocco, C. Mottolese

Comparison of postoperative outcomes following endoscopic third ventriculostomy or shunt in a propensity score matched pediatric cohort

Paulo Castro, Loren Berman, Joseph Piatt

Long-term prognosis and treatment outcomes in infantile and neonatal brain tumors

Adéla Bubeníková, Kryštof Haratek, Jana Táborská, Kateřina Trková, David Sumerauer, Martin Kynčl, Lenka Krsková, Miroslav Koblížek, Josef Zámečník, Petr Libý, Michal Tichý, Ondřej Bradáč, Michal Zápotocký, Vladimír Beneš 3rd

Orbital cranial fasciitis in childhood—a benign masquerader of rhabdomyosarcoma: case report and literature review

Firat Atak, Irem Koc, Kemal Kosemehmetoglu, Elif Gunay Bulut

RE: “Craniopharyngiomas in children: the pendulum moves again for an aggressive surgery-late complications and considerations with a recent series of 26 patients treated in Lyon”

H. M. van Santen, A. Carai, H. Muller

The comparison in postoperative complications and prognosis between pediatric and adult patients with pineal region tumors

  • Research

Kun Song, Xiaowen Wang, Chun-Jui Chen, Xinghui Chen, Wei Hua, Wei Zhu, Tianming Qiu

Simultaneous, dual-target, bilateral deep brain stimulation for treatment of galactosemia-induced dystonia and tremor in a pediatric patient

Adip G. Bhargav, Paige A. Lundy, Keith A. Coffman, Christian B. Kaufman

Open repair versus fetoscopic fetal surgery: Which is the best approach for intrauterine myelomeningocele correction? Systematic review and meta-analysis

Jairo Porfírio de Oliveira Júnior, Bárbara Albuquerque Morais, Matheus Neves Faria Fernandes, Otávio Augusto de Paula Mendes Teixeira, Aloisio Oliveira Lacerda, Milena Vieira Ramos, Rodrigo Akira Watanabe, Paulo Ronaldo Jubé Ribeiro

Clinical outcomes and quality of life after endovascular embolization for vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation (VGAM): a study from a low-and middle-income country

Fatima Suleman, Tanveer Haq, Gohar Javed, Ayesha Sohail, Altaf Ali Laghari

Early kyphectomy in myelomeningocele: insights from a paediatric case series

  • Research

Martina Giordano, Jacopo Falco, Raul Della Valle, Marco Picano, Marco Cenzato, Giuseppe Talamonti

Family dynamics after diagnosis and surgical treatment of myelomeningocele: using telemedicine as a complementary tool

Tatiane Santos Nunes, Edward Araujo Júnior, Liliam Cristine Rolo, Adriana Sañudo, Sergio Cavalheiro, Antonio Fernandes Moron

Supracerebellar highway-fast and safe road to pediatric pineal tumor resection

Filip Milisavljević, Ivan Bogdanović, Aleksandar Miljković, Jelena Milin-Lazović, Aleksandar Milosavljević, Igor Lazić, Rosanda Ilić, Danica Grujičić

Pediatric low-grade brainstem glioma: a review of current diagnosis and treatment paradigms in the molecular era

Victor M. Lu, George I. Jallo, Nir Shimony

The effect of institutional learning curve on paediatric ventricular shunt survival: a retrospective cohort study from a new paediatric neurosurgical centre

Michael J. Stuart, Soe Htike, Annabelle M. Harbison, Timothy Ruder, Amelia J. Jardim, Norman Ma, Liam G. Coulthard, Robert A. J. Campbell

Purely endoscopic transventricular approach for resection of a pineal region epidermoid cyst with third ventricle extension in a pediatric patient: a case-based review and literature analysis

Santiago Ezequiel Cicutti, Javier Danilo Gonzalez Ramos, Sebastián Gastón Jaimovich

Predictive factors in the management of hydrocephalus and cerebrospinal fluid-related complications in pediatric choroid plexus tumors: a single-center experience

Mahmoud Abbassy, Abdelrhman Enayet, Mohammad Elbaroody, Ahmed Atallah, Madiha Awad, Hala Taha, Mohamed Saad Zaghloul, Amal Refaat, Mohamed ElBeltagy

Stem cell therapy in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Prateek Kumar Panda, Ananthanarayanan Kasinathan, Pragnya Panda, Lesa Dawman, Aditi Gupta, Vivek Singh Malik, Indar Kumar Sharawat, Meenu Singh

Proton versus photon radiation therapy for pediatric medulloblastomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Lucca B. Palavani, Pedro G. L. B. Borges, Gabriel Semione, Marcio Yuri Ferreira, Paulo Victor Zattar Ribeiro, Jhon E. Bocanegra-Becerra, Camila Vilhena, Leonardo B. O. Brenner, Dan Zimelewicz Oberman, Erion Junior de Andrade, S. Farzad Maroufi, Marcio S. Rassi, Raphael Bertani, Cleiton Formentin

Prevalence of spinal deformities in myelomeningoceles treated in utero and postnatally, utilizing 3D external orthopedic system (EOS) panoramic radiographic technology

Vinicius de Meldau Benites, Vinicius Santos Baptista, Matheus Galvão Valadares Bertolini Mussalem, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa, Sergio Cavalheiro

Complications of growth-friendly techniques in early onset scoliosis of neurofibromatosis type 1: a case series

Martin Piazza, Vivek P. Gupta, Paul D. Sponseller, Lindsay M. Andras, Kenneth M. C. Cheung, Jaime A. Gomez, Purnendu Gupta, Joshua M. Pahys, Amer F. Samdani, Steven W. Hwang

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis and management of new brain tumours in children and young people (aged < 16 years old) in the UK

Sara Venturini, Kalsoom Akhter, Shivani Rajkumar, Midhun Mohan, Andrew Dapaah, Elizabeth Calton, Roland Casson, John-Paul Kilday, G. A. Amos Burke, Donald C. Macarthur, Ibrahim Jalloh

Safety and efficacy of neuroendoscopic lavage for the management of neonatal intraventricular haemorrhage

Susan I. Honeyman, Alexandros Boukas, Sean C. Martin, Tim Lawrence, Amedeo Calisto, Jayaratnam Jayamohan, Shailendra Magdum

Obstructive hydrocephalus due to high-volume liquid embolic agent embolization for management of pediatric arteriovenous malformations: illustrative case

Alex Devarajan, Chi Le, Tomoyoshi Shigematsu, Alejandro Berenstein, Johanna T. Fifi, Peter F. Morgenstern

Comprehensive analysis of clinical, radiological profiles, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up outcomes in pediatric neurocysticercosis patients: a retrospective observational study

Pushparaj Nilkanth Patil, Zubair Khan, Darshankumar K Mahyavanshi, Avnika Chauhan

Intracranial venous pressures and endovascular outcomes in pediatric patients with cerebral venous sinus stenosis

Sage P. Rahm, Matthew Thomas Cleveland Jarrell, Sasha Howell, Anil Mahavadi, Anastasia Smith, James M. Johnston, Jesse G. A. Jones

The expression of GSTP1 in the filum terminale of children with tethered cord syndrome

  • Research

Wang Zili, Jia Weidong, Zhang Yu, Xia Bing, Wei Liangkui, Li Jianfeng, Liu Fuyun

Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging during surgical resection for drug resistant epilepsy eliminates the incidence of inadvertent incomplete resection of the epileptogenic zone and early surgical failure

Joyce Koueik, Youngwon Youn, Susan Rebsamen, Adam N. Wallace, Adam Kney, Andrew T. Knox, David A. Hsu, Raheel Ahmed

Naked sacrococcygeal teratoma associated with dorsal meningocoele and sacrococcygeal inversion: an atypical presentation of Currarino syndrome

Debajyoti Datta, Nagwa Wilson, David McAuley

Opposite patterns of association of TWIST1 expression with patient survival in SHH and Group 4 medulloblastoma

Karina Munhoz de Paula Alves Coelho, Matheus Dalmolin, Francis Rossetti Pedack, José Guilherme Pickler, Camila Barbosa, Julio Recalde, Rodrigo Blasius, Bruna Louise Silva, Marcelo A. C. Fernandes, Hercilio Fronza Junior, Paulo Henrique Condeixa de França, Rafael Roesler

Intradiploic meningioma with spontaneous epidural hematoma in a child: a case report

İlçim Ermutlu, Cihat Akşahin

Brown tumor in the pterygopalatine fossa with maxillary and sphenoidal involvement: a rare case report and literature review

Ali Naeim, Amirhossein Larijani, Arvin Naeimi, Jahangir Ghorbani, Alireza Sadeghipour, Mohammad Shirani

Wormian bones in simple sagittal synostosis: incidence and correlations

Pablo Miranda-Lloret, Estela Plaza-Ramirez, Giovanni Pancucci, Adrian Verdu-Ferrer, Begoña Castello-Guarch, Francisco Menor-Serrano, Juan Antonio Simal-Julian

Limitations of MRI in differentiating solid and cystic components of craniopharyngiomas

Banu Karaalioğlu, Nazlı Çakıcı Öksüz, Veyselkarani İpek, Aslı Çakır, Osman Kahraman, Muhammet Arif Özbek

Pediatric primary intracranial Ewing’s sarcoma involving cavernous sinus: an untamed evil

Ashutosh Kumar, Ram Nawal Rao, Vandan Raiyani, Srishti Dixit, Anantha Chaitanya, Soumen Kanjilal, Pawan Kumar Verma, Anant Mehrotra, Arun Kumar Srivastava, Awadhesh Jaiswal

Delay in the diagnosis of pediatric central nervous system tumors: data from a single tertiary care center

Farrah Bashir, Samreen Aamir, Soha Zahid, Anoosha Marium, Naureen Mushtaq

Fulminant idiopathic intracranial hypertension mimicking Chiari I malformation in a pediatric patient: diagnostic value of MRI and promising outcomes with venous sinus stenting

Manel Krouma, Basile Kerleroux, Beatrice Desnous, Jean François Hak, Mathieu Milh, Didier Scavarda

A case of severe idiopathic adolescent scoliosis: the importance of a three-dimensional approach for optimal surgical outcomes, case report, and literature review

Luigi Aurelio Nasto, Paolo Ulisse, Angelo Sieczak, Enrico Pola

Niels Sörensen (September 2, 1941–March 6, 2025)—founder of pediatric neurosurgery in Germany

Hartmut Collmann, Tilmann Schweitzer, Jürgen Krauß, Klaus Roosen

Molecular features reflect clinical outcomes after recurrence in medulloblastoma: a single-institution experience

Mai Watakabe, Kohei Fukuoka, Kayoko Ichimura, Yutaka Tanami, Masao Kobayashi, Jun Kurihara, Atsuko Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi Koh

Risk factors for postoperative fever following cranioplasty in children: a retrospective cohort analysis

Yangyang Diao, Ping Liang

Emerging insights into primary ciliary dyskinesia-associated hydrocephalus: a scoping review

Katerina Theochari, Ourania S. Kotsiou

Elective intraperitoneal procedures do not adversely impact paediatric ventriculoperitoneal shunt survival: 10-year retrospective cohort study

Tom Hoy, Annabelle M. Harbison, Robert A. J. Campbell, Liam G. Coulthard, Rachel E. Colbran, Michael J. Stuart

Prenatal MRI diagnosis and postnatal management of interhemispheric cysts associated with corpus callosum dysgenesis: case series and systematic review

Ratna Sutanto, Yarmaniani Miliati Muchtar, Ido Narpati Bramantya, Randi Eben Haezer, Jessica Christanti

Giant intracranial teratoma in a pediatric patient: a case report and literature review

Oyku Ozturk, Pelin Kuzucu, Alp Ozgun Borcek

Cushing’s disease in children: a single-centre experience

Ahmed Mahmoud Elnaggar, Mehul Dattani, Hoong-Wei Gan, Helen L. Storr, Matthew Matson, William M. Drake, Neil Dorward, Joan Grieve, Kristian Aquilina

Late failure of Everolimus in a patient with tuberous sclerosis complex after 10 years of effective response: an illustrative case

Carla Richetta, Shlomi Constantini, Rina Dvir, Jonathan Roth

Pterional dermal sinus: case report and review of the literature

Lucio Giustiniano, Yamila Basilotta, Guido Gromadzyn, Javier Gonzalez Ramos

Fusion of habitat analysis and deep learning on contrast-enhanced T1-weighted imaging for predicting Ki-67 status in pediatric brain tumors

Shujie Wang, Kang Yang, Xiaoyu Hu, Junping He, Ming Yang

Machine learning for endoscopic third ventriculostomy success prediction—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Anna Łajczak, Yasmin Picanço Silva, Paweł Łajczak

Overview of pediatric hydrocephalus in Nigeria: A systematic review

  • Review

Sean C. Holden-Kapshuck, Temitayo O. Ayantayo, Amos O. Adeleye, Matthew T. Shokunbi, Zoey Petitt, Haley G. Kieny, Brady K. Browning, Joshua Woo, Nicholas Kendall, Elizabeth Blackwood, Michael M. Haglund, Alvan-Emeka K. Ukachukwu

Pediatric hydrocephalus management at a major neurosurgical referral center in Kumasi, Ghana

Joseline Haizel-Cobbina, Christian Coompson, Samuel Addy, Kwadwo Darko, Derrick Obiri-Yeboah, Kwaku Ampofo, Dickson Bandoh, Benedict Owusu, Anthony Lamina, Jeffrey P. Blount, James M. Johnston, Michael C. Dewan, Frank Nketiah-Boakye

Letter to the Editor about the article “Prenatal diagnosis of Chiari type 1 malformation”

  • Correspondence

Giovanni Palumbo, Andrea Righini, Mario Tortora, Francesco Pacchiano, Cecilia Parazzini

Catatonia: a rare presentation of paediatric hydrocephalus

Gunjan Badwaik, Palash Badwaik, Pasquale Gallo

Long-term outcomes of the spinopelvic “reverse T-construct” combined with magnetically controlled growing rods for the treatment of neuromuscular scoliosis

Ines Moser, Victor Bauwens, Lorenzo Serfaty, Raphael Vialle, Mathilde Gaume

Surgical management of raised ICP in craniosynostosis: experience-based selection of posterior vault expansion techniques

Amparo Saenz, Andrea Allen-Tejerina, Alexandra Didi Leslie-Pyke, Luke Smith, Silvia Schievano, Adikarige Haritha Dulanka Silva, Greg James, David Dunaway, Juling Ong, Owase Jeelani

Utility of invasive intracranial pressure monitoring in children with craniosynostosis: relationship to clinical assessment, syndrome and surgical treatment

Ioanna Mavrantoni, Greg James, Emer Mulholland, Claudia Craven

Vagus nerve stimulation combined with ketogenic diet versus ketogenic diet alone in the treatment of febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome in children: efficacy and long-term prognosis study

Tianshuang Wang, Xiaotian Chen, Renqing Zhu, Yixue Wang, Xiaoyan Gong, Lifei Yu, Yi Wang, Yuanfeng Zhou

Diffuse midline glioma with extra central nervous system metastases in the pediatric, adolescent, and young adult population

  • Open Access
  • Glioma
  • Case Report

Alexandra M. Giantini-Larsen, Andrew L. A. Garton, Maricruz Rivera, Rachael Han, David J. Pisapia, Sameer Farouk Sait, Matthias A. Karajannis, Jeffrey P. Greenfield, Mark H. Bilsky, W. Christopher Newman, Mark M. Souweidane

Characterizing congenital encephaloceles: epidemiological insights and clinical outcomes in a 12-year single-center study

Evan C. Bowen, Adam B. Fleming, Olivia Patch, Katherine E. Baker, Austin Lignieres, Kristin J. Weaver, Ian C. Hoppe

Global disparities in pediatric neurosurgery research: a 20-year bibliometric analysis by country income group

Khushi H. Shah, Victor M. Lu, Toba N. Niazi

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy versus ventriculoperitoneal shunting for hydrocephalus treatment following prenatal and postnatal myelomeningocele repair

Sasidhar Karuparti, Francisco Narro Garcia, Ashlynn Lizer, Sarah Smith, Lindsay Peglar Marsala, Jagruti Anadkat, Katherine H. Bligard, Jesse Vrecenak, Jennifer M. Strahle

Redefining Chiari Malformation Type III: a systematic review of prognostic stratification based on a three-tier MRI-based anatomical classification

Felipe Gutierrez-Pineda, Nicolás Rincon-Arias, Maria Alejandra Sierra, Andrés F. Salazar, William J. Shelton, Aaron Lawson McLean, Edgar Ordoñez-Rubiano

Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery in children: widening the spectrum of oncological indications in the pediatric age group

V. Mastropasqua, M. Rigante, L. Massimi, P. Frassanito, F. Bianchi, M. Farina, G. Tamburrini

Spinal capillary hemangioma with intramedullary and extramedullary extension in a child with cutaneous stigmata: a rare case

Ozan Baskurt, Mehmet Arda İnan, Tufan Hicdonmez

Tension hydrothorax due to delayed and spontaneous supradiaphragmatic and intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter in pediatric patient: a rare complication with exhaustive literature review

Mehdi Borni, Brahim Kammoun, Amal Ben Belgacem, Amal Ayedi, Manel Feki, Faiza Safi, Mohamed Zaher Boudawara

Prevalence of neural tube defects and their associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

Desmond M. Katunzi, Debora F. Samila, Michael Magoha, Henry D. Humba, Phillipo L. Chalya, Bipin Chaurasia

The effect of oncolytic virotherapy on pediatric brain tumor- a systematic review

Praveen Nandha Kumar Pitchan Velammal, Thirumalaivasan Dhasakeerthi, Jonathan Roy Varghese, Mansi Agrawal, Keerthana Veluswami, Hari Vorappan Manickavelan, Gurunathan Srinivasan

Rate and risk factors for shunt revision in pediatric patients with hydrocephalus during a 17-year study period: a retrospective, population-based study

Juho Välimaa, Terhi J. Huuskonen, Joona Tervonen, Ville Leinonen, Susanna Rantala

Incomplete cervical limited dorsal myeloschisis with membranous sac: a case report and literature review

Shohei Kinoshita, Kosuke Katayama, Kiyohide Kakuta, Tomohiro Kaji, Yu Nomura, Ai Mizukami, Takahiro Morita, Toshiaki Hayashi, Atsushi Saito

On patient positioning in the “Supracerebellar highway-fast and safe road to pediatric pineal tumor resection”: a letter to the editor

Helbert de Oliveira Manduca Palmiero

Long-term trends and disparities in primary intracranial germ cell tumor incidence and mortality for child and adolescent in the USA

Xijin Lin, Kongfeng Shao, Yingyi He, Haiyan Chen

Factors affecting infection risk and revision rates in shunted pediatric hydrocephalus: 10 years of data from a single academic center

Daniel N. de Souza, Adhith Palla, Rachel E. Yan, Eric A. Grin, Michael Farid, Alexander Eremiev, Caroline Kremer, Zoran Z. Gajic, Jeffrey H. Wisoff, Eveline Teresa Hidalgo, David H. Harter

Stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of pediatric cerebral cavernous malformations: a systematic review and meta-analysis of outcomes and safety

Bibhas Amatya, Ritvik Pulya, Julian Gendreau, Mickey E. Abraham

Predicting reoperation following craniotomy for empyema evacuation in pediatric patients: systemic risk factors are relevant

Valentina Messino, Sara Sigismondi, Paola Giuseppina Sergi, Giada Iafrate, Federico Bilotta

Non-invasive intracranial pressure monitoring in management of slit ventricle syndrome—case report

Walter Fagundes, Paulo Vitor da Cruz, Wander Valentim, Mir Wajid Majeed, Gustavo Frigieri

Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma and astrocytoma: A narrative review of the literature

Marios Lampros, Petros Baxevanidis, Konstantinos Tsegkelidis, George A. Alexiou, Spyridon Voulgaris

Methodological considerations in comparing behavioral outcomes after surgical correction of non-syndromic sagittal craniosynostosis

Main Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Haris Khan, Mohammad Mujtaba Khokhar, Aamnah Qazi, Muhammad Saeed Qazi

Hydrocephalus in snake bite: a rare manifestation with review of literature

Abhijit Acharya, Rama Chandra Deo, Souvagya Panigrahi, A. K. Mahapatra, Rachita Sarangi, Devi Prasad Mohapatra

A rare case of diffuse myelitis following intracystic bleomycin chemotherapy for craniopharyngioma

Monirah Zeya, Rishabh Dev Dubey, Daljit Singh

Seizures in pediatric patients with hydrocephalus: a predictive symptom of ventricular shunt malfunction?

Giuliana Agras Menghi, Alejandro Musso, Erika Paulina Navarrete Gosdenovich, Juan Maccagno, Exequiel Verdier, Mario Jaikin, Gastón Dech, César Petre

Letter to the editor regarding “pediatric cervical spinal cord compression secondary to lymphoma: a case report”

Sean O’Leary, Milan Sivakumar, Kwadwo Darko, Mazin E. Khalil, Umaru Barrie

Clinical profile and outcomes of pediatric ependymoma: a 10-year retrospective analysis from a resource-limited setting

Farrah Bashir, Nowal Hussain, Bilal Mazhar Qureshi, Kumail Khandwala, Shayan Sirat Maheen Anwar, Fareeha Nisar, Syed Ather Enam, Khurram Minhas, Naureen Mushtaq

ISPN 2025: 51 st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery

Subtotal tumor resection as a predictor of post-resection hydrocephalus in pediatric patients with posterior fossa tumors

Barnabas Obeng-Gyasi, Trenton A. Line, Anoop S. Chinthala, Jignesh Tailor

Comparative outcomes for pediatric cranial procedures by general surgeons and neurosurgeons in a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia

Cleresa Renee Roberts, Oumou Kalsoum Mbacke, Divine Nwafor, Emily Dunbar, Abhinav Kareddy, Maya Parker, Joy Pierson, Bereket Hailu Mekuria, Heather Stevens Spader

Ventriculoatrial shunt via sternotomy: an alternative for patients with jugular and venous confluence thrombosis

Yamila Basilotta Marquez, Juan A. Medina, Romina Argañaraz, Sebastian Vitar

Long-term outcome in 415 operated cases with single suture scaphocephaly

Sofie Dietvorst, Lawrence Choi, Aitor de Gea Rico, Anusha Hennedige, Christian Duncan, Vejay Vakharia, Chris Parks, Ajay Sinha

From imaging to reality: 3D printing for craniopagus twins separation, a technical workflow and a center experience

  • Case Report

Hanan Al Qahtani, Hesham Al Shaalan, Alanoud H. Almuhana, Rahaf F. Alanazi

Comparing ventricular access devices and ventriculosubgaleal shunts for posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation: systematic review and meta-analysis

Raniah Aljeaid, Mohamed Abdelmawla, Maan Abu zaid, Asma Almazrooei, Nisreen Kafi, Soha Alomar

Vacuum-assisted closure of the scalp flap following malignant cerebral edema during craniotomy: pediatric case presentations and review of the literature

Lisa B. E. Shields, Mark Chariker, Emily P. Sieg, Ian S. Mutchnick

A retrospective diagnosis of trauma-related self-resolving hemorrhagic skull lesions of Langerhans cell histiocytosis in a child through cytopathologic re-evaluation of a prior post-traumatic parotid gland hematoma

Çiğdem Öztunalı, Mustafa Fuat Açıkalın, Berat Acu

Endoscopic ultrasonic aspirator–assisted resection for pediatric hypothalamic hamartomas: outcomes and technical nuances

Sergio Cavalheiro, Wagner Lazaretto Padua, Paloam Cardoso Nôvo, Thais Cristina de Souza Melo, Patrícia Alessandra Dastoli, Fernando Suzuki, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa

Pediatric low-pressure hydrocephalus: a case series and re-analysis of a rare disease

Debajyoti Datta, Albert Tu

Postoperative complications of ventriculoperitoneal shunt in children: experience from a middle-income referral hospital in Lima, Peru

Nicole M. Castillo-Huerta, O. Nicole Torres-García, Alcides Vargas Aymituma

An analysis of short-term outcomes and healthcare resource utilization for ventriculoperitoneal shunt versus endoscopic third ventriculostomy in pediatric patients with hydrocephalus following posterior fossa brain tumor resection

Irim Salik, Bryan Larin, Ian Choe, Eris Spirollari, Jose Dominguez, Iwan Sofjan, Avinash Mohan, Carrie Muh, Jared Pisapia

Acute ventriculomegaly and gaze deviation after evacuation of subdural hematoma: report of an unusual case

Talia Mia Bitonti, Kaylea Noel MacDonald, Debajoyti Datta, Albert Tu

Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor of the third ventricle in a pediatric patient: a case report

Anıl Erol, Larisa Andrada Ay, Elif Bolat

Frameless intraputaminal delivery of gene therapy with eladocagene exuparvovec in patients with aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase deficiency: safe and efficient results

Roni Mai, Dmitriy Reshchikov, Vladimir Popov, Sergey Gorelikov, Ekaterina Zakharova, Svetlana Mikhaylova

Composite type split cord malformation: a two-center study and analysis of a series of 25 cases

Pinar Aydin Ozturk, Harun Emre Sen, Abdurrahman Arpa, Baris Altun, Fatih Shatri, Tevfik Yilmaz, Volkan Etus

Posterior fossa decompression in syndromic children with chiari-like posterior fossa crowding: a nationwide US-based study

Victor Gabriel El-Hajj, Josué Aganze Mwambali, Ihab Ahmad Al-Rikabi, Erik Öhlen, Maria Gharios, Victor E. Staartjes, Joanna M. Roy, Basel Musmar, Pascal Jabbour, Erik Edström, Adrian Elmi-Terander

Role of immunohistochemistry in the molecular classification of atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor

  • Research

Rumela Nayak, Shilpa Rao, Abhishek Chowdhury, Arivazhagan. A, Gyani Jail Singh, Jitender Saini

Regional scalp block for post-craniotomy pain management in children: a scoping review

Eric A. Grin, Christian Schneider, Sophie Yagoda, Travis C. Hill, John L. Ard, Yosef Dastagirzada, Julia R. Schneider, Annie Liu, Can Sarica, Aryan Ali, Eveline Teresa Hidalgo

Lesionectomy involving rolandic and perirolandic cortex for intractable epilepsy in children: surgical strategy and motor outcome

Peh Hueh Low, Mei Sin Lim, Nadiah Ahmad Fuad, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Ahmad Rithauddin Mohamed, Azmi Alias

Understanding normocephalic craniosynostosis: a case–control study on prevalence, clinical features, and neurodevelopmental challenges

Sarut Chaisrisawadisuk, Sirin Nittayakasetwat, Sirin Apichonbancha, Nachasa Khongchu, Mark H. Moore

Neuroendoscopic lavage: a single-center retrospective cohort in the USA

Sunny Abdelmageed, Lucinda Chiu, Maria Dizon, Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale, Jeffrey S. Raskin, Michael DeCuypere, Jonathan Scoville, Sandi Lam

Management of secondary intracranial hypertension in untreated craniosynostosis: a case series and literature review

Othman AlHammad, Rawan AlWadee, Nayef Latta, Ahmed Gamal Sayed, Sultan Alharbi, Faisal Joueidi

Molecular subtype prediction model for pediatric low-grade gliomas using conventional neuroradiology reporting

Daddy Mata-Mbemba, Andrew Trasolini, Irit Maianski, Kathryn McFadden, Cameron Crowell, Rahim Moineddin, Michael Sargent, Sylvia Cheng, Sébastien Perreault, Craig Erker

Timely surgical intervention in sickle cell–related hemorrhagic stroke: a pediatric success story and literature review

Guea Ngbwa Ghislain, Haman Nassourou Oumarou, Anu Ronaldo Fonju, Djientcheu Vincent de Paul

Paediatric infected intracranial dermal sinus presenting with vermian abscess and associated with postoperative delayed cerebral ischemia

A. Rewatkar, V. Vazhayil

Neuroprotective properties of erythropoietin (Epo) and its receptor (EpoR) in open spinal dysraphism (OSD): an investigation of EpoR expression in a rat OSD model, along with in vitro studies on the neuroprotective effects of Epo on rat spinal cord-derived neural progenitor cells

Friederike Knerlich-Lukoschus, Jacqueline Clüver, Inez Manczuk, Frieda Bayler, Dana Hellmold, Michael Synowitz, Janka Held-Feindt

An unusual bullet tracing from the cranium to the thoracic intramedullary area following a tired bullet injury: a pediatric case report

  • Case Report

Bilal Abbasoglu, Engin Erdin, Ayfer Aslan, Gokmen Kahilogullari

Tethered cord syndrome with acute onset in adolescence with trauma – a case report

Erik C. Brown

Neuro-ophthalmic clues affecting the surgical approach to a brain tumor: the case of a craniopharyngioma masquerader

Reeda Bou Said, Alan R. Cohen, Neil R. Miller

Incidental cranial suture closure in pediatric patients: a rigorous evaluation of suture closure timing in the era of high-resolution CT

Nicholas A. Han, Mark R. Halverson, Ashley E. Chang, Philip D. Tolley, Sara Reis Teixeira, Karuna V. Shekdar, Jordan W. Swanson, Scott P. Bartlett, Erin S. Schwartz, Jesse A. Taylor

Post-laminectomy cervical kyphosis in children: a critical omission in surgical planning

Audai Abudayeh, Iakiv Fishchenko

Evaluation of long-term aesthetic outcomes of fronto-orbital advancement using a crossing-the-midline greenstick fracture technique in anterior synostotic plagiocephaly

Bekir Can Kendirlioğlu, İnci Nur Hacıoğlu Vergili, Serdar Onur Aydın, Gizem Akgül Özdemir, Evren Aydoğmuş, Gaye Taylan Filinte, Tufan Hiçdönmez

Open letter to patient associations, public authorities across Europe subject: Urgent action needed to resolve the shortage of pediatric neurosurgical devices

  • Correspondence

Federico Di Rocco, Dominic Thompson, Martina Messing-Jünger, Spyros Sgouros, Gianpiero Tamburrini

ETV for fourth ventricle outlet obstruction (FVOO) in the long-term period following pediatric posterior fossa tumor resection

Jonathan Roth, Lidor Bitan, Danil A. Kozyrev, Ashraf Sharbook, Carla Richetta, Noa Mecica, Dmytro Zhebrykov, Shlomi Constantini

Craniopharyngioma in children. An age-based analysis on our 11 year experience with the endoscopic endonasal approach

Mirko Scagnet, Rina Agushi, Federico Mussa, Filippo Giovannetti, Regina Mura, Stefano Stagi, Anna Maria Buccoliero, Chiara Caporalini, Lorenzo Genitori

Factors predicting the need for rescue decompressive craniectomy for refractory intracranial hypertension in pediatric traumatic brain injury

Anthony Schulien, Kristen Stabingas, Jaskaran Rakkar, Kennedy Carpenter, Sharath Anand, Shannon Shoemaker, Ward Richardson, Dennis Simon, Stephanie Greene

The significant danger of minor trauma in pediatric patients: acute ischemic stroke

Zeynep Olmez Mart, Emel Ulusoy, Oznur Eser, Anıl Er, Fatma Ceren Sarioglu, Murat Duman

Clinical challenges of cancer predisposition syndromes with pediatric central nervous system tumors: a single-center study

Hirohito Kubota, Kohei Fukuoka, Yuki Arakawa, Yoshinori Uchihara, Junko Takita, Hirofumi Ohashi, Jun Kurihara, Katsuyoshi Koh

Paediatric isolated foot drop—a rare presentation of Chiari 1 malformation with holocord syrinx (case report and the review of literature)

Juraj Schwab, Robert McConnell

Mapping the neurocognitive landscape of pediatric Chiari malformation type I: a scoping review of the literature

Mohammed A. Fouda, Asia Srhir, Elliot Zakursky, Aharnish Dev, Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman, Jeffrey P. Greenfield, H. Allison Bender

A silent intruder: arachnoid cyst of the third ventricle of the brain— case report and review of literature

Vishwanath Sahukar Eshwarappa, Preetha Dhanalakshmi Saravanan, Raghavendra G. Pattar, Preetham S. D., Ananth G., Anantha Kishan

Cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings in 167 patients with spina bifida aperta: a retrospective study

Gülseli Berivan Sezen, İbrahim Alataş, Hacı Mehmet Saygı, Larisa Andrada Ay, Cenk Çelik, Osman Boyalı

The human tail: a case series of five patients and a review of the literature

İlçim Ermutlu, Tolga Akbiyik, İpek Yağmur, Celal Bağdatoğlu

Volumetric analysis of term-equivalent age MRI in post-haemorrhagic ventricular dilatation reveals association between deep grey matter volume and developmental outcomes

Matthew John Kane, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, Malak Mohamed, Kshitij Mankad, Cristine Sortica Da Costa, William Dawes, Greg James, Aswin Chari, Kristian Aquilina

Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity in tubercular meningitis: An underacknowledged association

  • Mini Review

Aanchal Datta, M Vishnu Vardhan, Chhitij Srivastava

The management of pediatric Chiari I malformation with concomitant hydrocephalus: a multicenter retrospective analysis

Ladina Greuter, Tim Jonas Hallenberger, Maria Licci, Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale, Valentina Pennacchietti, Andrea Bartoli, Mahmoud Messerer, Agne Andriuskeviciute, Marta Garvayo, Malte Ottenhausen, Verena Fassel, Conor Mallucci, Arthur R. Kurzbuch, Giuseppe Cinalli, Guiseppe Mirone, Christopher Chandler, Sanjeev Bassi, Martina Messing-Juenger, Katharina Lutz, Dieter Class, Jonathan Roth, Shlomi Constantini, Carla Richetta, Raphael Guzman, Jehuda Soleman

Rapid progression of a posterior fossa arachnoid cyst in a child following minor head trauma: a case report

Ali Jama Ali, Qiang Li

Angiocentric glioma: a single center experience and literature review

Pengcheng Zuo, Kai Jiang, Wanjing Zou, Huan Li, Yang Wang

Retraction Note: Letter to the editor regarding “Selective dorsal rhizotomy outcomes in mixed spasticity and dystonia cases”

Leela Kumaran, Sheifali Gupta

Clinical and MRI Features in Pediatric Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Focus on Optic Nerve ADC Values

Merve Çakmak, Mehmet Karagülle, Fatma Selin Kaya, Pınar Arıcan, Peren Perk, İhsan Kafadar

Discriminating bathrocephaly from sagittal synostosis: the diagnostic power of objective cranial metrics

Semra Işık, Furkan Avcı, Mustafa Umut Etli

Large intraparenchymal hematoma revealing an intracranial pseudoaneurysm in a newborn discovered during surgery

Daouda Wagué, Mbaye Thioub, Ben Said Ceyedi, Ebrima Kalilu Manneh, Thierno Taha Sene, Momar Codé Ba

Neuroendoscopic lavage for the management of neonatal post-haemorrhagic hydrocephalus: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Susan Isabel Honeyman, Sean Christopher Martin, Tim Lawrence, Amedeo Calisto, Jayaratnam Jayamohan, Shailendra Magdum

Amelanotic melanoma of the central nervous system with systemic spread – imaging pitfalls and clues in a rare paediatric case with congenital melanocytic naevi

Xin Yuan Tan, Daniel Jing Wen Teh, Timothy Shao Ern Tan

Diagnostic utility of additional spine imaging for syrinx detection in the pre-operative assessment of pediatric Chiari malformation type 1

Kedous Y. Mekbib, Cody L. Nesvick, Adam D. Loudermilk, David J. Daniels, Edward S. Ahn

Adaptation and validation of a collaborative robotic equipment applied to pediatric neurosurgery

Allison Roberto da Silva, Hélio Rubens Machado, Marcelo Volpon Santos, Glauco Augusto de Paula Caurin, Calvin Suzuki de Camargo

Mapping the evolution of pediatric craniopharyngioma research: a bibliometric analysis

Spencer Frome, Yosef Dastagirzada, David Kurland, Jeffrey Wisoff

Development and validation of a nomogram for prediction of survival in adolescent spinal cord injury patients

  • Research

Liliana R. Ladner, Julianna L. Barbaro, Joshua A. Cuoco, Collin Tanchanco, Steven M. Thomas, Neel Patel, Srijan Adhikari, Cole Sloboda, Vaibhav M. Patel, Adelou L. Olasunkanmi, Cara M. Rogers, Eric A. Marvin, Brendan J. Klein

National multicentered retrospective review of salvage therapy for pediatric medulloblastoma: a Canadian experience

Michelle M Kameda-Smith, Melissa Lannon, Alysa Almojuela, Mark A MacLean, Amit Persad, Nicholas Sader, Arani Kulamurugan, Branavan Manoranjan, Craig Erker, Minoo Aminnejad, Bruce Cooks, Aleksander M Vitali, Walter Hader, Simon Walling, P. Daniel McNeely, Blake Yarascavitch, Olufemi Ajani, Forough Farrokhyar, Adam Fleming, Sheila K Singh

Surgical trapping and everolimus therapy for a giant internal carotid aneurysm in pediatric tuberous sclerosis complex: case report and literature review

Sosho Kajiwara, Yusuke Otsu, Jin Kikuchi, Kiyohiko Sakata, Yuuta Hamamoto, Masaru Hirohata, Hideo Nakamura, Motohiro Morioka

A pediatric case of severe bacterial central nervous system infection successfully treated with continuous ventriculospinal drainage

Satoshi Kitamura, Kohei Kanaya, Kotaro Nakamura, Haruki Kuwabara, Tetsuyoshi Horiuchi

Posterior fossa extradural haematoma with cerebral venous sinus thrombosis precipitates haemophilia a diagnosis: a paediatric case report and literature review

Melika Akhbari, William Owen, Susan Isabel Honeyman, Saket Badle, Amedeo Calisto

Identifying pediatric neurosurgery training priorities in Paraguay: a novel quadrant analysis

Victor M. Lu, Mauricio Guerrero-Ocampo, Ivan García, Luis M. Peña, Italo Flecha, Kevin Arce, Sima Vazquez, Caleigh S. Roach, Diego Servián

Pott’s puffy tumor in the post-COVID era

Siegfried J. Adelhoefer, Eric M. Jackson, Mari Groves, Shenandoah Robinson, Whitney Parker, Alan R. Cohen

Does age matter? The role of patient age in brain plasticity analyzed after a nerve transfer

Martin Bourguet, Simon Miedema, Eugenia Badaloni, Martijn Malessy, Javier Gonzalez Ramos, Mariano Socolovsky

Long-term cognitive outcomes of Chiari II malformation and corpus callosum abnormalities in myelomeningocele

Eren Ogut

Spinal dysraphism in adulthood: do they have different symptoms and outcomes? Evaluating the impact on the Quality of Life and the need for transitional care from pediatric to adult population

Davide Palombi, Mariapia Masino, Gabriele Ciaffi, Timothee de Saint Denis, Claudia Rendeli, Gianpiero Tamburrini, Luca Massimi

Burr hole monoportal endoscopic resection of a large choroid plexus cyst causing obstructive hydrocephalus: diagnosis, management and literature review

Nida Kalyal, Anca-Mihaela Vasilica, Kantharuby Tambirajoo, Andrew King, Naomi Sibtain, Bassel Zebian

Fetal myelomeningocele repair after the MOMS trial: a systematic review of neurosurgical outcomes and evolving techniques

Helbert de Oliveira Manduca Palmiero, Eberval Gadelha Figueiredo

Case-based review: Craniopharyngioma treated with intracystic peginterferon

Gonzalo Nicolás Salagre, Sara Iglesias, María Isabel Martínez-León, Marta Cortés, Iván Federico Narváez, Bienvenido Ros

Transient visual loss following endoscopic third ventriculostomy in a child with a posterior fossa tumour: consideration of intracranial pressure control

Taehoon Kim, Joo Whan Kim, Seok Jae Lee, Ji Hoon Phi, Seung-Ki Kim

Minimally invasive approach to cervical intraspinal air gun pellet in a pediatric patient

Olivia F. Patch, John H. Wilkinson, Joaquin A. Hidalgo

Surgical resection and targeted therapy in a pediatric NTRK-rearranged low-grade spindle cell sarcoma: a case report

Chien-Kai Wang, Yen-Lin Liu, Wan-Ling Ho, Shu-Mei Chen

Tissue-Specific Expression of Glutathione-S-Transferase Isoforms in Myelomeningocele: An Immunohistochemical Study

  • Research

Ahmet Eren Secen, Ozgur Ocal, Ugur Kemal Gunduz, Pinar Kaygin, Servet Guresci

A rare case of composite dual cervical split cord malformation—a case report and review of literature of composite split cord malformation

Kushagra Pandey, Sarvesh Goyal, Ramesh Doddamani

Split cord malformation type 1.5: a rare entity

Abhijit Acharya, Soubhagya Ranjan Tripathy, Souvagya Panigrahi, Rama Chandra Deo, A. K. Mahapatra

Fourth ventricular hamartoma presenting with epileptic spasms: case-based review and surgical considerations

Sergio Cavalheiro, Wagner Lazaretto Padua, Paloam Cardoso Nôvo, Thais Cristina de Souza Melo, Patrícia Alessandra Dastoli, Fernando Suzuki, Eliana Garzon, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa

Efficacy and safety of endoscopic third ventriculostomy with choroid plexus cauterization compared to ventriculoperitoneal shunting in pediatric hydrocephalus: a systematic review and meta-analysis with subgroup analysis

Kenzo Ogasawara Donato, Luciano Falcão, Rafael Andrade Sampaio Silva, Akio Ogasawara Donato, André Nishizima, Filipe Virgílio Ribeiro, Mariana Letícia de Bastos Maximiano, Anderson Matheus Pereira da Silva, Mariana Lee Han, Ocílio Ribeiro Gonçalves, Lucas Pari Mitre, Leonardo B. O. Brenner, Hsien-Chung Chen

Neurostimulation in children with drug-resistant epilepsy: strategies in subcortical targeting and systematic review of the evidence

Derek D. George, Melissa A. LoPresti, Maryam N. Shahin, Elysa Widjaja, Andrew Wensel, Neena I. Marupudi, Jeffrey S. Raskin

Surgical management of progressive spinal deformities in FKBP14-associated Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a case report and literature review

Bluyé DeMessie, Jason Yu, Shanzeh Sayied, Genesis Liriano, Jacob F. Schulz, Andrew J. Kobets

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor with extraneural metastases: a case report with genomic analysis

Nausheen Yaqoob, Boris Itkin, Syeda Sara Tajammul, Muna Mubarak Al Jabri, Zahida Niaz, Ravikanth Balaji, Ahmed Al Azri, Ibrahim Hassan Alhaddabi, Shoaib Al-Zadjali, Prashant Deshpande

Recalibrating ETV prediction: a standards-first, decision-aware, and equity-oriented roadmap for pediatric hydrocephalus

M. Vijaya Simha

Can a child survive a basilar artery injury during endoscopic third ventriculostomy? case-based review

Thais Cristina de Souza Melo, Felipe Ostermann Magalhaes, Pedro Jose Ramiro Muinos, Marcos Devanir Silva da Costa, Fernando Seiji Suzuki, Sergio Cavalheiro, Patricia Alessandra Dastoli

Strengths and limitations of healthcare transition programs for patients with spina bifida: a systematic review

Katrina Etts, Jimin Shin, Reynaldo Zamora, Jonathan E. Martin, Markus J. Bookland, David S. Hersh

Dandy Walker malformation with occipital encephalocele — personal series and updated literature review

Aanchal Datta, M. Vishnu Vardhan, Chhitij Srivastava, Bal Krishna Ojha

Progressive scoliosis in a pediatric patient with cerebellar ataxia: surgical challenges and literature review

Emanuela Asunis, Francesca Vitulli, Roberto Nicotra, Alfonso Rubino, Domenico Cicala, Giuseppe Cinalli, Gianluca Colella

Biopsy and laser ablation as a treatment strategy for pediatric brain incidentalomas

Hunter S. Futch, Arman Jahangiri, Youssef M. Zohdy, Jennifer Wheelus, Andrew Reisner, Jacob R. Lepard, Joshua J. Chern

Outcomes in prenatal vs. postnatal surgery for myelomeningocele: a systematic review and meta-analysis

João Pedro Veras Torres, Helvécio Neves Feitosa Filho, Rian Vilar Lima, Leonardo Brito de Souza, Lucas Evangelista de Andrade, Matheus Oliveira Ribeiro, Vinícius Garcia Costa e Melo, Antônio Aldo Melo Filho, Vitor Nagai Yamaki, Carlos Eduardo Barros Jucá

Analysis of the treatment of refractory epilepsy in pediatric patients with Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS): A case series

Jairo Porfírio de Oliveira Júnior, Bárbara Albuquerque Morais, Nayara Matos Pereira, Cilmária Leite Franco, Paulo Ronaldo Jubé Ribeiro

Capillary malformation–arteriovenous malformation syndrome (CM-AVM): a systematic review of cerebrovascular manifestations

Matteo Palermo, Alessandro Olivi, Carmelo Lucio Sturiale

Factors predicting the response to vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in pediatric patients with drug- resistant epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Siddarth Kannan, Sidharth Somanathan, Rishabh Suvarna, Maneesha Madavi Weerasooriya, Vejay Niranjan Vakharia

Changes of head circumference and ventricular width in infant hydrocephalus managed with adjustable shunt valves and gravitational assistance—a comparative bi-center study

Isabel Fernandes Arroteia, Hans Christoph Bock, Andreas Schaumann, Valentina Pennacchietti, Ahmed El-Garci, Gesa Cohrs, Matthias Schulz, Friederike Knerlich-Lukoschus, Ulrich-Wilhelm Thomale

Terminal myelocystocele and the chiari connection: a case-based review with a novel pathophysiological hypothesis

Mariana Agudelo-Arrieta, Felipe Marin-Navas, Wilfran Perez-Mendez, Julián Alfonso Sierra-Peña, Manuel Vergara-Lago

Beyond papilledema: optic disc clues reveal coexisting Chiari I malformation and osteopetrosis—a case report and systematic review

Sheng-Chi Yang, Sheng-Min Hsu, Yi-Sheng Chang

Clinical features and treatment of methylmalonic acidemia complicated with Dandy-Walker syndrome: a report of four cases and review of literature

Weiping Wang, Yabing Zhou, Jia Wei, Weiwei Mao, Lingzhao Min, Xiaoqiang Wang

Therapeutic comparison of hypertonic saline and mannitol in pediatric intracranial hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abdullah Afridi, Zaryab Bacha, Fatima Sajjad, Iqra Shahid, Iqra Khan, Hira Habib, Yasir Saleem, Makzooma Batool, Madiha Gul, Fazia Khattak, Farwa Nisa, Muhammad Abdullah Ali, Rida Khan Hoti, Muhammad Hamza Khan, Hafsa Khan, Kamil Ahmad Kamil

Significant clinical and radiologic response to targeted therapy in pediatric cervicomedullary low-grade gliomas harboring the BRAFV600E mutation

G. Abebe Campino, S. Shrot, S. Constantini, J. Roth, A. Toren, M. Lurye, M. Yalon-Oren

Occult spinal CSF leak: to patch or not to patch—a case-based update

Jiashu Wang, Amine P. Thomé, Allan L. Brook, Jocelyn C. Ronda, Andrew J. Kobets

Significant improvement of neurological and radiological findings caused by multiple lateral meningocele by cyst-subarachnoid shunt in a 6-year-old boy: case report

Yasuhiko Hayashi, Hitoshi Sato, Synsuke Shiraga, Yoshitaka Mitsui, Sho Takata, Yasuhiro Ikawa, Toshihiro Ogiwara, Hideaki Iizuka

Mapping influence in pediatric craniopharyngioma: the 50 most cited articles

Amelia Stepniak, Julia Diamandi, Regan M. Shanahan, Joseph Garcia, Zeeshan Qazi, David T. Fernandes Cabral, Nitin Agarwal, D. Kojo Hamilton

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