Pediatric Neurosurgery for Clinicians

Dr. Georgios Alexiou is an Assistant Prof. of Neurosurgery  at the University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece since 2017. He graduated from the same university in 2004. He undertook his neurosurgical training at ‘’Agia Sofia’’ Children’s Hospital in Athens and at the University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece. After finishing his residency he received the EANS Spine Fellowship award and worked as a Clinical Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery in Leeds Teaching Hospital, UK. He then received the AANS International Travelling Fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery award at the Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery in Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Alexiou worked as a consultant at the Gamma Knife Center at the University Hospital La Timone in Marseille, France. He has a Master degree in Biotechnology and Public Health. His PhD was on the differential diagnosis of glioma recurrence from radiation necrosis using SPECT and MRI that was funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission (5M Euro). Dr. Alexiou worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston Texas and is also working on basic research at the Neurosurgical Research Institute in Ioannina, Greece.  His primary research interests are pediatric neurosurgery, advanced imaging and radiotherapy techniques to improve the outcomes of glioma patients, intraoperative flow cytometry for brain tumor surgery and on the discovery and validation of novel chemotherapeutic agents for glioma treatment.  Dr Neofytos Prodromou is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon. He graduated from the University of Athens, Greece and after finishing his residency he worked as a Senior Registrar in Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London, UK. Afterwards he worked as a clinical fellow in epilepsy surgery in  Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. He finished his PhD on neurosurgery and he was a Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Department of the Children’s Hospital ‘’Agia Sofia’’, Athens Greece for 35 years. He currently works as a Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Department in ‘’Mitera’’, Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece. Dr Prodromou has performed more than 10.000 operations covering the entire spectrum of pediatric neurosurgery. 

I.General Topics.- History of  Pediatric Neurosurgery.- Neurological Examination.- II.Congenital and Developmental Cerebral Anomalies.- Hydrocephalus.- Intraventricular Hemorrhage in the Newborn.- Arachnoid Cysts.- Dandy-Walker Malformation.- Chiari Malformation.- Cephaloceles.- Craniosynostosis.- Craniofacial Syndromes.- III.Congenital and Developmental Spinal Anomalies.- Myelomeningocele.- Lipomeningocele.- Diastematomyelia.- Myeloschisis.- Non-Dysraphic Lipomas.- IV.Tumors.- Predisponsing Syndromes.- Scalp and Skull Tumors.- Astrocytomas.- Medulloblastoma.- Ependymoma.- Atypical Teratoid / Rhabdoid Tumors.- Craniopharyngiomas and other sellar tumors.- Brainstem Tumors.- Pineal Region Tumors.- Rare variantsi.- Spinal Tumors.- V.Trauma.- Non accidental Trauma.- Fractures.- Epidural Hematoma.- Subdural Hematoma.- Intracerebral Hematoma.- Diffuse Axonal Injury.- Penetrating Head Trauma.- Spine trauma.- VI. Vascular Malformations.- Arteriovenous Malformations.- Cavernous Malformations.- Aneurysms.- Moya-Moya Disease.- Vein of Galen Aneurysms.- VII.Functional.- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Extratemporal Lobe Epilepsy.- Hemispherectomy.- Spasticity.- VIII.Infections.- Shunt Infection.- Epidural Abscess.- Subdural Empyema.- Brain Abscess.- Encephalitis.- Spine Infections.- IX. Modern Concepts and Practices.- Advanced MRI Techniques for Brain Disorders.- Intraoperative Flow Cytometry in Pediatric Brain Tumors.- Advances in Radiotherapy for Pediatric Brain Tumors.- Pediatric Rehabilitation.