Conditions Treated

Pictured below, Dr. Danielpour with the robot 'doctor', a video screen that allows physicians to monitor patients from a remote area.  The doctor's face appears on the robot's screen enabling the physician to interact with the patient through the real-time video hookup.

The pediatric neurosurgeons at the Pediatric Neurosurgery Program, along with the multidisciplinary team of expert pediatric physicians, treat the following conditions:

• Tumors
  • Brain and spinal cord tumors
  • Neurocutaneous syndromes
• Congenital malformations
  • Anomalies of the vertebral column
  • Arachnoid cysts
  • Chiari malformation and spinal cord syrinxes
  • Craniosynostosis, craniofacial reconstruction and deformational plageocephaly
  • In utero neurosurgical conditions
  • Neural tube defects
  • Tethered cord
  • Pediatric stroke, Moya Moya disease and other vascular malformations
• Functional neurosurgery
  • Brachial plexus injury
  • Medical intractable epilepsy
  • Spasticity surgery
• Hydrocephalus
• Trauma