Issue 4/2017
Content (27 Articles)
Early history of neurofibromatosis type 2 and related forms: earliest descriptions of acoustic neuromas, medical curiosities, misconceptions, landmarks and the pioneers behind the eponyms
Martino Ruggieri, Andrea D. Praticò, Agostino Serra, Luigi Maiolino, Salvatore Cocuzza, Rosario Caltabiano, Agata Polizzi
Results of the prophylactic surgery of lumbosacral lipomas: the pendulum of management?
Thomas Roujeau, Syril James, Véronique Forin, Michel Zerah
Anomalous intracranial germinoma with unilateral cerebral peduncle swelling
Felicia H. Z. Chua, David C.Y. Low, Derrick W. Q. Lian, Seow Wan Tew, Sharon Y. Y. Low
Moyamoya disease is a vascular form of neurocristopathy: disease of the embryologic cephalic neural crest
Masaki Komiyama
Multimodality management and outcomes of brain arterio-venous malformations (AVMs) in children: personal experience and review of the literature, with specific emphasis on age at first AVM bleed
Anan Shtaya, John Millar, Owen Sparrow
Management of eosinophilic granuloma in pediatric patients: surgical intervention and surgery combined with postoperative radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Zhenhai Zhou, Hongqi Zhang, Chaofeng Guo, Honggui Yu, Longjie Wang, Qiang Guo
A comparison of clinicopathological features and surgical outcomes between pediatric skull base and non-skull base meningiomas
Zhicen Li, Hao Li, Yuming Jiao, Ji Ma, Shuo Wang, Jizong Zhao, Yong Cao
Unique findings of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma within cortical tubers in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex: a histopathological evaluation
Joel S. Katz, Hyman Frankel, Tracy Ma, David Zagzag, Benjamin Liechty, Bruria Ben Zeev, Michal Tzadok, Orrin Devinsky, Howard L. Weiner, Jonathan Roth
PLK1-associated microRNAs are correlated with pediatric medulloblastoma prognosis
Julia Alejandra Pezuk, María Sol Brassesco, Ricardo Santos de Oliveira, Hélio Rubens Machado, Luciano Neder, Carlos Alberto Scrideli, Luiz Gonzaga Tone
Positional plagiocephaly is associated with sternocleidomastoid muscle activation in healthy term infants
Amy Leung, Allison Mandrusiak, Pauline Watter, John Gavranich, Leanne Johnston
Bone mineral density and insulin-like growth factor-1 in children with spastic cerebral palsy
H Nazif, R Shatla, R Elsayed, E Tawfik, N Osman, S Korra, A Ibrahim
Considerations in deep brain stimulation (DBS) for pediatric secondary dystonia
Deki Tsering, Laura Tochen, Bennett Lavenstein, Srijaya K. Reddy, Yael Granader, Robert F. Keating, Chima O. Oluigbo
A comparison of the MOMS trial results to a contemporaneous, single-institution, postnatal closure cohort
Nicholas M. B. Laskay, Anastasia A. Arynchyna, Samuel G. McClugage III, Betsy Hopson, Chevis Shannon, Benjamin Ditty, John C. Wellons III, Jeffrey P. Blount, Brandon G. Rocque
Children presenting in delayed fashion after minor head trauma with scalp swelling: do they require further workup?
Jonathan N. Sellin, Amee Moreno, Sheila L. Ryan, Sandi K. Lam, Marcella Donaruma-Kwoh, Thomas G. Luerssen, Andrew Jea
Association of evening smartphone use with cardiac autonomic nervous activity after awakening in adolescents living in high school dormitories
Yoko Nose, Rina Fujinaga, Maki Suzuki, Ikuyo Hayashi, Toshio Moritani, Kazuhiko Kotani, Narumi Nagai
Frontal burr hole approach for neuroendoscopic resection of craniopharyngioma with the NICO Myriad device: report of two cases
Reilin J. Moore, Andrea Scherer, Daniel H. Fulkerson
Syringomyelia caused by an arachnoid web in a patient with shunted Dandy-Walker malformation
Hee Chang Lee, Jung Won Choi, Ji Yeoun Lee, Ji Hoon Phi, Seung-Ki Kim, Byung-Kyu Cho, Kyu-Chang Wang
Paediatric spinal cord infarction—a review of the literature and two case reports
Asim Sheikh, Daniel Warren, Anne-Marie Childs, John Russell, Mark Liddington, Velupandian Guruswamy, Paul Chumas
Somatosensory reflex seizures in a child with epilepsy related to novel SCN1A mutation
Pinar Arican, Nihal Olgac Dundar, Dilek Cavusoglu, Taha Resid Ozdemır, Pinar Gencpinar
Traumatic elevated vertex fracture with delayed increase in intracranial pressure: a rare case
Uday Singh Raswan, Sarbjit Singh Chhiber, Altaf U. Ramzan
Optimal pediatric dosing of anti-platelet agents for pipeline stent embolization —a case report and review of the literature
Mary In-Ping Huang Cobb, Ali R. Zomorodi, Erik F. Hauck, Tony P. Smith, L. Fernando Gonzalez
Giant posterior fossa dural cavernoma in a child
Aniruddha Tekkatte Jagannatha, Umesh Srikantha, Kiran Khanapure, Krishna Chaitanya Joshi, Ravi Gopal Varma
Traumatic intracranial displacement of the ventriculoperitoneal valve chamber in a child—a report of 2 cases
Tymon Skadorwa, Bogdan Ciszek
Multiple neural tube defects: a rare combination of limited dorsal myeloschisis, diplomyelia with dorsal bony spur, sacral meningocoele, syringohydromyelia, and tethered cord
Ramdurg Shashank R, Dubey Shubhi, Kadeli Vishal
Transcardiac migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt requiring open cardiac surgery: case report and review of the literature
Ashley Ralston, Amanda Johnson, Gerhard Ziemer, David M. Frim