Pediatric Neurosurgery Clinic（越秀院区）

Introduction to the Pediatric Neurosurgery Department. Basic department information: The Pediatric Neurosurgery Department of Guangdong Provincial Women’s and Children’s Hospital (Guangdong Provincial Children’s Hospital) focuses on “long-term comprehensive treatment of pediatric nervous system diseases” and provides children with nervous system disorders with services in diagnosis and treatment, surgery, rehabilitation, and healthcare from the fetal and perinatal periods, through infancy and early childhood, to adolescence. The department currently has 5 physicians, including 2 chief physicians, 1 associate chief physician, 2 attending physicians, 1 supervisor of master’s students, and 1 U.S.-trained PhD/postdoctoral fellow; all physicians in the department have at least a master’s degree. Specialty features: 1. Pediatric nervous system tumors: minimally invasive surgery and individualized precision treatment of pediatric intracranial tumors (brainstem tumors, posterior cranial fossa tumors, sellar-region tumors, pineal-region tumors, intraventricular tumors, cerebral hemisphere tumors, etc.). 2. Congenital neural tube defects: meningoencephalocele, congenital spinal cord lipoma, tethered cord syndrome, split cord malformation, Dandy-Walker malformation, spinal cord vascular malformations, etc. 3. Pediatric hydrocephalus and cysts: early treatment and long-term follow-up management of hydrocephalus in premature infants and low-birth-weight newborns, congenital hydrocephalus in children, arachnoid cysts of the lateral fissure, quadrigeminal cistern cysts, syringomyelia (Chiari malformation). 4. Neonatal cerebral hemorrhage: extensive clinical experience in the treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage and intraparenchymal hemorrhage in neonates, infants, and young children. 5. Abnormal head shape in children: craniofacial malformations (various craniosynostoses, Crouzon syndrome, Apert syndrome, etc.). 6. Treatment of pediatric craniocerebral trauma and multiple trauma: emergency surgery for various craniocerebral injuries; extensive clinical experience in the management of neurocritical conditions. 7. Pediatric cerebrovascular diseases: minimally invasive surgery and interventional treatment of pediatric cerebrovascular diseases, including cerebral arteriovenous malformations, moyamoya disease, cavernous hemangiomas, etc. 8. Surgical treatment of epilepsy and cerebral palsy in children.