title: Ventricular endoscopy in the pediatric population: review of indications.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Neuroendoscopy has greatly impacted pediatric neurosurgery over the past few decades. Improved optics and microsurgical tools have allowed neuroendoscopes to be used for a multitude of neurosurgical procedures.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this review article, we present the breadth of intraventricular neuroendoscopic procedures for the treatment of conditions ranging from hydrocephalus and brain tumors to congenital cysts and other pathologies. We critically discuss treatment indications and reported success rates for neuroendoscopic procedures. We also present novel approaches, technical nuances, and variations from recently published literature and as practiced in the authors' institution.
authors: Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive MC5327, Stanford, CA, USA, omarc@stanford.edu.
authors: Omar
authors: O
authors: Choudhri
authors: Abdullah H
authors: AH
authors: Feroze
authors: Jay
authors: J
authors: Nathan
authors: Samuel
authors: S
authors: Cheshier
authors: Raphael
authors: R
authors: Guzman
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D044583:Neuroendoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D010372:Pediatrics; D014696:Ventriculostomy / Q000379:methods*