ABSTRACT
Although pediatric neurosurgery is relatively young as a formal subspecialty of general neurosurgery (the first meeting of the Section of Pediatric Neurological Surgery was held in 1972 and the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery first met in 1978), it has been practiced for millennia. Trephined pediatric skulls were excavated in Peru and at other ancient sites.1 The father of neurosurgery, Sir Victor Horsley, performed his first epilepsy surgery on a child in 1886.2 Harvey Cushing wrote extensively about the unique disorders of childhood.3,4 Many other notables followed these icons, ensuring the momentum for further progress and refinement in the surgical care of children with disorders of the nervous system.5
