Pediatric neurosurgeons and supporting professional staff offer a comprehensive range of consultative and surgical services to children requiring neurosurgical care.

Recent Event: Dr. Ben Carson, internationally recognized neurosurgeon visited Levine Children's Hospital. Click here to read more about the event.

Services offered and conditions diagnosed and treated include:
Congenital and Developmental Problems

• Hydrocephalus
  • CSF shunts
  • Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
• Spina bifida and other congenital developmental malformations of the spinal cord and brain
  • Repair of myelomeningocele
  • Release of tethered spinal cord
  • Repair of encephalocele
  • Chiari malformation decompression
  • Treatment of syringomyelia
• Cranial and craniofacial malformations
  • Head shape screening
  • Craniofacial reconstructive surgery (with Plastic Surgery)
  • Minimally invasive cranial reconstructive surgery when appropriate (with Plastic Surgery)
• Cysts of the brain and spinal cord
  • Cyst to cavity shunt
  • Endoscopic cyst fenestration
• Intractable spasticity
  • Selective dorsal rhizotomy
  • Implantable pump delivered intrathecal Baclofen
• Intractable epilepsy
  • Surgery for epilepsy, with cortical mapping as needed
  • Vagal nerve stimulators

Trauma

• Multidisciplinary management of the injured child
  • Intracranial pressure monitoring and management
  • Decompressive surgery when appropriate
• Spine and spinal cord injury
  • Multidisciplinary acute care management
  • Stabilization of spinal fractures

Tumors

• Brain and spinal cord tumors
  • Microsurgical, minimally invasive surgery
  • Image guided surgery
  • Cortical mapping as needed
  • Stereotactic radiosurgery
  • Comprehensive interdisciplinary management with innovative adjuvant therapy protocols

Vascular Problems

• Arteriovenous and other vascular malformations of the brain and spinal cord
  • Surgical resection, with cortical mapping as needed
  • Interventional neurosurgery when appropriate

Physicians:

C. Scott McLanahan, MD*
Michael Heafner, MD
Martin M. Henegar, MD

   *Board certified in Pediatric Neurosurgery

Why Levine Children's Hospital?

• LCH is committed to providing referring physicians with timely information regarding patients referred for neurosurgical care.
• LCH emphasizes family-centered care which is vital when children and their families are transitioned back to their homes and the care of their primary physicians.