Childhood Brain and Nerve Diseases

Pediatric neurosurgery deals with brain and nerve diseases that occur from the womb to the age of 18. Some of these diseases are:
• Congenital brain hemorrhages
• Congenital nervous system disorders
• Increase in cerebrospinal fluid
• Spinal deformities
• Head and spinal cord injuries
• Spinal cord and vascular diseases
• Skull deformities
• Spinal cord closure defects
• Brain and spinal cord tumors
• Accumulation of water in the brain
• Epilepsy and other movement disorders