Pediatric Neurosurgery

Pediatric Neurosurgery, also known as Pediatric Neurology or Pediatric Neurosurgery, deals with brain and nerve diseases that occur during or after birth. All children are evaluated within the scope of Pediatric Neurosurgery from the womb to adolescence and are included in the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up processes.

The most common diseases are various vascular diseases, especially brain and spinal cord tumors, hydrocephalus known as brain blistering, and spinal dysraphism, which is a common disease in newborns. The main purpose of the Pediatric Neurology Specialist is to reveal these diseases and to ensure the healthy development of the brain and nervous system of children.

We can list other diseases that Pediatric Neurology doctors are interested in as follows;

• Neonatal congenital brain hemorrhages
• Congenital nervous system disorders,
• increase in cerebrospinal fluid,
• spine deformities,
• Congenital brain hemorrhages,
• Head and spinal cord injuries
• Spinal cord and vascular diseases,
• Arteriovenous malformations and moya moya disease,
• Spina bifida spine and spinal cord closure defects,
• Epilepsy and other movement disorders
• Childhood brain and spinal cord vascular diseases (Aneurysm),
• Skull deformities and Craniosynostoses,
• Childhood movement disorders
• Dystonia and spasticity.