Fig. 7.1 Characteristics of patient-reported outcomes PROs are tools that enable the elicitation, collection, and assessment of PRO information. A PRO measure, referred to by some as PROM, is “any…
Fig. 2.1 General and specific interventions across the system and evaluation end points (modified from Brown et al.) This epistemology of surgical safety is applicable to a wide range of…
Fig. 7.1 The 2016 World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system Because there are many different kinds of brain tumors, the number of children diagnosed with…
Type of craniosynostosis Suture involved Incidence Characteristics Scaphocephaly (dolicocephaly) Sagittal 40–60 % Bitemporal narrowing Frontal bossing Occipital cupping Palpable sagittal ridge Anterior plagiocephaly Coronal 10–20 % Nasional deviation Flattening of…
What Goal First line imaging Special considerations Brain tumor Diagnosis and treatment/therapy/planning/posttreatment follow-up MRI brain with and without contrast Strongly consider obtaining spine imaging to rule out any metastatic disease…
Communicating Congenital Achondroplasia Associated with craniofacial syndromes Acquired Posthemorrhagic: intraventricular or subarachnoid Choroid plexus papilloma or choroid plexus carcinoma Venous obstruction as in superior vena cava syndrome Postinfectious Noncommunicating Congenital…
(1) Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13123 E. 16th Ave, 330, Aurora, CO 80045, USA Electronic supplementary material Supplementary material is available in…
Subjective: witness to mechanism of event (i.e., police, EMT, parent report, photographs), loss of consciousness (LOC), anterograde or retrograde amnesia, witnessed posttraumatic seizure, abnormal behavior or vomiting, cardiorespiratory compromise/resuscitation, immobilization…
Fig. 4.1 Finding a new bump while washing hair 4.2 Diagnostic Testing Once the child is referred to pediatric neurosurgery, the provider may order a computed tomography (CT) scan or…
