Items Tagged ‘dura’
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More Evidence that Riskiest Part of Chiari Surgery May Not be Necessary
Surgeons* at the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center treat a number of children with a neurological birth defect called Chiari Malformation (CM). Increasingly, they are finding that the most risky part of their surgical treatment, that is, opening the dura, may not always be necessary. They...
Posted on Feb 19, 2010 by Department Author In Blog, Chiari Malformations, Pediatric Neurosurgery Blog, Pediatrics -
Pediatrics Added to this Year's IML at the Congress of Neurosurgery Meeting
This year at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) they added pediatrics to their Integrated Medical Learning (IML) program. Dr. Neil Feldstein from the Pediatric Neurosurgery Center was one of the presenters during a session on the surgical management of Chiari Malfo...
Posted on Dec 24, 2009 by Department Author In Blog, Chiari Malformations, Pediatric Neurosurgery Blog