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Pediatric Neurosurgery The Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center’s Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit specializes in the surgical treatment of pediatric brain and spinal tumors--in conjunction with a team including pediatric neuro-oncologists and pediatric medical oncologists. Surgery of developmental anomalies presenting prenatally, in infancy, childhood, or adulthood including tethered spinal cord, spina bifida, syringomyelia (syrinx), myelomeningocele, hydrocephalus, normal pressure hydrocephalus, craniosynostosis, lipoma, dermal sinus, encephalocele, aqueductal stenosis, myeloschisis, lipomyelomeningocele, split cord malformation, diastematomyelia, Klippel-Feil syndrome, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunts [including ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) and ventriculo atrial (VA) shunts], Dandy-Walker cyst, and Arnold-Chiari malformation are also a focus of this group of neurosurgeons. Related Indexes The WFUBMC Epilepsy Index The WFUBMC Hydrocephalus Index The WFUBMC Spina Bifida/Myelodysplasia Index The WFUBMC Arnold Chiari/Syrinx Index The General Disability Links The WFUBMC Neurosurgery Brain Tumor Index has more information on the treatment of tumors of the brain or spine and support for patients, family, and other caregivers. The WFUBMC Neurosurgery Meningioma Index has more information on the treatment of benign tumors of the brain or spine such as meningioma and hemangioblastoma. The WFUBMC Neurosurgery Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Index Homepage has more information on the treatment of arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spine. WFUBMC Neurosurgery Neurogenetics Index: Information on Neurofibromatosis type I (Von Recklinghausen's Disease), type II (bilateral vestibular schwannomatosis), Von Hippel-Lindau disease (hemangioblastoma) and tuberous sclerosis (subependymal giant cell astrocytoma).