Conditions We Treat

Our nationally renowned experts treat a wide range of neurological disorders.

Brain Tumors

Benign Pediatric Brain Tumors
The neuroscience team at Le Bonheur’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Program provides diagnosis and treatment for benign pediatric brain tumors, a childhood tumor that grows very slowly, rarely spreads and does not contain cancer cells.

Brain Tumor Surgery
The nationally-recognized neurosurgeons at Le Bonheur offer the most advanced brain tumor surgery to pediatric brain tumor patients including shunt surgery, craniotomy and brain tumor resection.

Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma
The neuroscience team at Le Bonheur’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Program provides diagnosis and treatment for all three types of childhood cerebral astrocytomas that include low-grade, high-grade and recurrent astrocytomas.

Ependymoma
The neuroscience team at Le Bonheur’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Program provides diagnosis and treatment for childhood ependymoma, a malignant pediatric brain tumor that develops in the cells that line the ventricles of the brain and the spinal cord canal.

High Grade Glioma
Le Bonheur’s neurosurgery team is skilled at treating High Grade Glioma tumors, which are fast growing and considered malignant. They are classified as grade 3 or grade 4 by the tumor classification system.

Low Grade Glioma
Le Bonheur neuroscience team treats many types of specific tumors classified as “low-grade glioma.” Gliomas originate from glial cells, most often astrocytes. Sometimes the terms “astrocytoma” and “glioma” are used interchangeably.

Malignant Pediatric Brain Tumors
The neuroscience team at Le Bonheur’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Program provides diagnosis and treatment for malignant pediatric brain tumors, a childhood tumor that grows quickly and invades and destroys healthy brain tissue.

Medulloblastoma
The neuroscience team at Le Bonheur’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Program provides diagnosis and treatment for childhood medulloblastoma, the most common type of brain tumor in children and found in the cerebellum or posterior fossa.

Pediatric Brain Tumor Resection
Through the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program at Le Bonheur, skilled and experienced neurosurgeons are able to advise and provide pediatric brain tumor resection.

Posterior Fossa Tumors
Le Bonheur’s neurosurgery team includes experts at treating posterior fossa tumors, including medulloblastoma, ependymoma and low-grade astrocytoma.

Epilepsy

Intractable Epilepsy
The highly skilled medical team at Le Bonheur’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program has advanced knowledge and experience to provide expert treatment for intractable epilepsy.

Ketogenic Diet
The highly skilled medical staff at Le Bonheur’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program has the knowledge to treat pediatric epilepsy with ketogenic diet which can help control a child’s seizures.

Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
The highly knowledgeable physicians at Le Bonheur’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program are experienced in treating Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, which is a severe form of epilepsy that starts in early childhood.

Pediatric Seizures
The epilepsy team at Le Bonheur is skilled at the diagnosis and treatment of seizures, which are a sudden change in behavior or awareness. The result can be a change in movement, attention or level of awareness. Some types of seizures cause loss of consciousness with convulsions or shaking of the body.

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
The team at Le Bonheur’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program is trained to treat pediatric temporal lobe epilepsy, a form of epilepsy where seizures start in the temporal lobe of the brain.

Vagus Nerve Stimulation
At Le Bonheur’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, vagus nerve stimulation treatment is performed for children whose seizures aren’t controlled with medication.

Common Diagnosis Related to Traumatic Brain Injuries

The multidisciplinary team at Neuroscience Institute at Le Bonheur Children's treats many different diagnoses of traumatic brain injuries, including: contussions, concussions, subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma and multiple skull fractures.

Craniopharyngioma

We treat craniopharyngiomas, which result from the growth of cells that have failed to migrate to their usual area just below the back of the skull during fetal development.

Craniosynostosis

Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute treats craniosynostosis, a condition where the small spaces in a baby's skull close to early, so the skull can no longer stretch and expand to allow for the young child's brain to grow.

Spina Bifida

Le Bonheur’s neuroscience team treats Spina Bifida, which is a neurological condition can cause a portion of the spinal cord and the surrounding structures to develop outside, instead of inside, the body. The defect can occur anywhere along the spine.

Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

At Le Bonheur, we treat Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, which is a genetic disorder that causes tumor growth in organs throughout the body.