Cranial disjunction and visual failure in a slit ventricle syndrome with patent shunt

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 276-279

  Van Bogaert, P ^a   Raftopoulos, C ^a   Cordonnier, M ^a   Chaskis, C ^a   Szliwowski, H B ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blindness; Craniosynostosis; Papilloedema; Slit ventricle syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLINDNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; PAPILLEDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 0029900531     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00261810     Document Type: Article

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