Article Text
Book review
Pediatric Neurosurgery.
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Pediatric Neurosurgery. Edited by m choux, c di rocco, a d hockley,
et al
. (Pp 875, £170.00). Published by Churchill Livingstone, London, 1999. ISBN 0 4430 5630 7.
In a suitably resourced healthcare system it is no longer acceptable for children to receive neurosurgical care from a surgeon who only occasionally dabbles with “small adults”. Those who provide paediatric neurosurgical care must understand the differences between the developing nervous system and the degenerating one that our adult colleagues have to deal with. Likewise it is no longer appropriate to add the odd chapter …