What is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon?
If your child has problems involving the head, spine, or nervous system, a pediatric neurosurgeon has the experience and qualifications to treat your child.
Neurosurgical problems seen by pediatric neurosurgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general neurosurgeons. Special training in pediatric diseases as they relate to pediatric neurosurgical diseases is important. Pediatric neurosurgical problems often are present for life. Pediatric neurosurgeons have a special and longstanding relationship with their patients. Children with nervous system problems frequently require ongoing and close follow-up throughout childhood and adolescence.
Neurosurgical Disorders in Children
Pediatric brain tumors, seizures, and inborn abnormalities of the spine, face and head can be challenging. Patients and families all over the world can rely on the experts at Johns Hopkins to offer hope, insight, and compassionate care.
- Arachnoid cysts
- Brachial plexus injury
- Brain tumors
- Cerebral palsy, including selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity
- Chiari malformation
- Congenital malformations of the brain and spine
- Craniofacial syndromes
- Craniosynostosis
- Epilepsy surgery
- Hydrocephalus
- Neural tube disorders (spina bifida, syringomyelia, tethered cord, etc.)
- Skeletal dysplasia
- Spinal cord tumors
- Traumatic brain and spinal injuries
- Vascular abnormalities, including moyamoya and pediatric aneurysm