Child's Nervous System

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

Resolution of massive arachnoid cyst

Dimitrios Varthalitis, Chris Parks

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

XII Brazilian Congress of Pediatric Neurosurgery