Tadanori Tomita, MD, FAANS
Tadanori Tomita, MD, FAANS, is a professor emeritus of neurological surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Introduction
While I was a rotating surgical intern at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo in 1970-1972, two pediatric patients struck me the most. One of them a 10-year-old boy with cystic craniopharyngioma with recurring cyst needing frequent Ommaya taps, the only treatment that could be offered to him then. Another was a 7-year-old girl with pontine glioma who progressed...
