Conditions & Treatment

Pediatric Conditions Treated

The Division of Paediatric Neurosurgery at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital offers state of the art surgical management of disorders of the nervous system including:

• Arachnoid Cysts
• Brain Tumors
• Chiari Malformations
• Craniosynostosis and Craniofacial Syndromes
• Epilepsy
• Head and Spine Trauma
• Hydrocephalus
• Inflammatory/Infectious processes of the brain and spine (e.g. brain abscess)
• Moyamoya Disease
• Myelomeningocele and other congenital spinal anomalies
• Peripheral nerve surgery (e.g. brachial plexus repair)
• Spasticity (selective dorsal rhizotomy/baclofen pumps)
• Spinal Cord Tumors
• Vascular Malformations of the brain (Aneurysms and Arteriovenous Malformations) and spinal cord