Neurosurgery - Pediatric

Backed by the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute and Kentucky Children’s Hospital, the UK HealthCare Pediatric Neurosurgery program treats children from infancy through adolescence for conditions affecting the brain, spine or nervous system. These issues may be congenital or the result of injury.

They include:

  • Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs)
  • Brain tumors
  • Cerebral aneurysms
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Chiari malformations
  • Craniosynostosis
  • Epilepsy
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Spasticity
  • Spina bifida
  • Spinal tumors