Erschienen in:
01.10.2010 | Special Annual Issue
Editorial
verfasst von:
George I. Jallo, Philippe Gailloud
Erschienen in:
Child's Nervous System
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Ausgabe 10/2010
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Excerpt
Pediatric vascular disorders are rare as compared to the adult disease process. Many pediatric neurosurgeons rarely treat these lesions in their daily practice, as they care for the more common entities such as hydrocephalus, brain tumors, congenital disorders, or adult vascular entities. However, many of the intracranial vascular lesions that are seen in the adult patient population are also present in the pediatric age. However, the incidence of lesions, clinical symptoms, imaging presentation, and especially the behavior may differ significantly. Intracerebral cavernous angiomas, for example, are more likely to bleed in children than in the adult patient group. In addition, in the pediatric age group, several vascular lesions may be encountered that are unique to the child’s age such as vein of Galen aneurysmal malformations. …