Neurocirurgia infantil Latinoamericana, vol I, 1st edn (in Portuguese, Spanish)

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The volume is the result of a 3-year cooperative effort by part of pediatric neurosurgeons of various South American countries to provide the medical community of the continent a comprehensive and basic text on pediatric neurosurgery in their native languages. Mainly stimulated by Dr. Carlos Dabdoub Arrien, President of the Capítulo de Neurocirugia Pediátrica of the Latin–American Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (FLANC), and by the two editors in chief Drs. Sergio Valenzuela and Arturo Zuleta, this text book reveals all the difficulties that South American pediatric neurosurgeons have to face to favour the development and the establishment of our specialty and to assure a satisfactory care for a very large population of which more than one third are children. Through this lens, it is easier to understand the uneven quality of the different sections, the somewhat surprising chapter distribution and even some typographical irregularities. Certainly, most of these limitations that can be found in the volume are going to be overcome by the second tome, which is in preparation, aimed at completing the missing parts, and possibly by a second edition, once all the materials are available for the final elaboration. Indeed, the editors should be congratulated for having reached one of their main objectives that is to create a text book of pediatric neurosurgeons, written by South American authors for South American readers. …