Functions and complications of shunts in different etiologies of childhood hydrocephalus

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 92-94

  Serlo, W ^a   Fernell, E ^b   Heikkinen, E ^a   Anderson, H ^b   von Wendt, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Regional Habilitation Institution for Motorhandicapped ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Infections; Shunt complications; Shunt function; Shunts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNTING;

BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025312667     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00307928     Document Type: Article

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