Neurosurgery Collected resources on neurosurgery from the online British Medical Journal.
Information is provided here on neurosurgery, aimed at the lay person.
It is written by physicians at the Department of Neurological Surgery, New York University Medical Center. This Web resource aims to provide families with authoritative, current information on common paediatric neurosurgical conditions. Maintained by Neil Feldstein MD, a paediatric neurosurgeon at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, information is provided on hydrocephalus, spina bifida, Chiari malformation, tethered spinal cord, syringohydromyelia, craniofacial anomalies, tumours, trauma, vascular disorders and epilepsy. Using virtual reality modeling, users can practice surgical techniques and operations. This particular tool is a neurosurgical simulator, for use by neurosurgery trainees in the Ventricular Catheterisation procedure.