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Why Choose Us for Your Child's Care
- The Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, one of the largest in the Northeast, offers comprehensive services for children with neurosurgical issues an unparalleled, supportive environment.
- Our multidisciplinary Spasticity Center is the only program in the tri-state area and among the few nationwide that performs minimally invasive selective dorsal rhizotomy to decrease spasticity due to cerebral palsy.
- Our pediatric neurosurgeons have played a major role in advancing the field of spinal instrumentation at the craniovertebral junction in children, with success rates for the surgery approaching 100 percent.
- The Pediatric Epilepsy Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital is one of the most active pediatric epilepsy programs on the East Coast and is a major referral program for the treatment of intractable seizures.
- The intensive care units of Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital provide care around the clock to infants, children, and adolescents with life-threatening neurological illnesses and injuries, as well as those recovering from major or high-risk neurological surgery, treating more than 1,900 patients annually.
- The Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery offers particular expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of rare and more common metabolic and genetic diseases, developmental disorders, and neuromuscular conditions. Our laboratory and clinical research program enables patients with challenging conditions to participate in trials of experimental therapies.
