Paediatric meningiomas: a multi-centre case series of 27 patients.

Purpose: This study presents a series of paediatric meningiomas and discusses aetiology, risk factors and outcomes with comparison to current literature.

Methods: This is a retrospective review of surgically treated paediatric meningiomas from three UK centres: the University Hospital of Wales, Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Twenty-seven patients aged 16 and under at the time of their first procedure were identified over a 15-year period (1 January 2007 and 1 March 2023).

Follow up of infants with skull fractures by neurosurgeons due to the risk of growing fractures; is it needed?

Introduction: Growing skull fractures are a rare complication of paediatric skull fractures. Despite its rarity, a large proportion of resources go towards detecting this complication. This study aims to identify the factors associated with growing skull fracture development to determine which children require follow-up.

Outcomes of head trauma in children admitted to a tertiary paediatric intensive care unit in South Wales.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the demographics and outcomes of major paediatric head trauma managed in our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in South Wales and comparison is made with the existing published literature.

Design And Setting: A retrospective review of medical records and imaging of patients identified from the paediatric neurosurgical trauma database at University Hospital Wales (UHW) from March 2013 to July 2021. We assessed the GCS at admission, mechanism of injury, CT scan, type of surgery required and GOS after 12 months.

Is postoperative high dependency care really needed for children undergoing supratentorial brain tumour surgery?

Purpose: We present our analysis of the existing Paediatric High Dependency Unit (HDU) admission policy at our institution and discuss our thoughts for its revision in the context of paediatric supratentorial tumour surgery.

Materials And Methods: We screened our prospectively maintained database of all children undergoing supratentorial craniotomy for resection of paediatric brain tumours over a fifteen-year period. The post-operative course of each patient was reviewed, assessing the number of patients who had true HDU needs in the immediate post-operative period, and the relative depth of input from paediatric HDU specialists that each patient received.