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The clinical presentation and perioperative and intraoperative anesthetic management of a child with craniopharyngioma is reviewed. Other topics covered in this chapter include discussion of spinal dysraphism, neurofibromatosis, and the pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale.
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Mancuso, T.J. (2021). Neuroanesthesia. In: Pediatric Anesthesiology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60656-5_12
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