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Neurosurgery - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Seizures
      - Vomiting
      - Headaches
  - - - Conciousness initially
      - Unconcious with increasing ICP
      - Heriation and death
    - - Low enegry impact (clash of heads)
  - - - High velocity injury
  - - - Shaken baby sundrome
    - - Seizures
      - Tense fontanelle
      - Usually small babies
    - - Resolves spontaneously
      - Burr holes
- - - - Communicating - Lumbar puncter
      - External ventricular drain (EVD)
      - Ventricular tap
    - - Removal of ostruction
      - VA / VP shunt
      - Obstructive hydrocephalus - Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
- - - - Persistent / recurrent vomiting
      - Balance / co-ordination / walking problems
      - Abnormal eye movements
      - Behaviour change - lethargy
      - Fits of seizures (not with fever)
      - Abnormal hea position such as wry neck, head tilt or stiff neck
    - - Persistent / recurrent headache
      - Persitent / recurrent vomiting
      - Balance / co-ordination / walking problems
      - Abnormal eye movements
      - Blurred or double vision
      - Behaviour change
      - Fits or seizures
      - Abnormal head position
    - - Persistent / recurrent headache
      - Persisten / recurrent vomiting
      - Balance / co-ordination / walking problems
      - Abnormal eye movements
      - Blurred or double vision
      - Behaviour change
      - Fits or seizures
      - Delayed or arrested puberty, slow growth
- - - - Antenatal repair - fetoscopic surgery
      - Shunt
  - - - 1/1000 pregnancies
      - Myelomeningocele
      - Anencephaly
    - - 0.1/1000 pregnancies
      - Lipomas / hamartomas
      - Split cord anomalies
      - Neurenteric cysts
      - Dermal sinuses
      - Anterior meningocele
      - Spina bifida occulta
      - Tethered cord
      - Meningocele