Pediatric neurosurgery

Short description: Subspecialty of neurosurgery

For the journal, see Pediatric Neurosurgery (journal).

Pediatric Neurosurgery is a subspecialty of neurosurgery; which includes surgical procedures that are related to the nervous system, brain and spinal cord; that treats children with operable neurological disorders.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 See also
* 3 References

## History

Boston Children's Hospital was the first hospital in the United States with a specialized neurosurgical service for children, established in 1929 by Harvey Cushing and Franc Ingraham.[1][2]

As of 2009, there were fewer than 200 pediatric neurosurgeons in the United States. Approximately 80% of them were male.[3] In the past 25 years, 391 doctors graduated from a pediatric neurosurgery program. Only 70% of them currently practice primarily pediatric rather than adult neurosurgery. Approximately 70% of them are in academic medicine.[4]

## See also

* Medical specialties
* Pediatric neuropsychology

## References

1. ↑ Youmans and Winn Neurological Surgery (7 ed.). Elsevier. 2017. pp. 1472–1475.
2. ↑ "Neuroscience Center". Boston's Children Hospital. http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/centers/neuroscience-center. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
3. ↑ Shipman, Scott A.; Lane, Jessica R.; Durham, Susan R. (1 January 2009). "The pediatric neurosurgical workforce: defining the current supply: Clinical article". Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 3 (1): 1–10. doi:10.3171/2008.10.PEDS08255. ISSN 1933-0715. PMID 19119896. https://thejns.org/pediatrics/view/journals/j-neurosurg-pediatr/3/1/article-p1.xml. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
4. ↑ Maher, Cormac O.; Durham, Susan R.; Scott, R. Michael; Nadel, Jeffrey L. (4 January 2019). "Recent trends in North American pediatric neurosurgical fellowship training". Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics -1 (aop): 517–522. doi:10.3171/2018.10.PEDS18106. ISSN 1933-0715. PMID 30611157. https://thejns.org/pediatrics/view/journals/j-neurosurg-pediatr/aop/article-10.3171-2018.10.PEDS18106.xml. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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