Risks in using siphon-reducing devices in adult patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus: Bench test investigations with Delta valves

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 634-641

  Hassan, Mahmood ^a   Higashi, Sotaro ^a   Yamashita, Junkoh ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Delta valve; Intracranial pressure; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Siphon reducing device; Subcutaneous pressure; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HEAD POSITION; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIMULATION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; VALVE;

ANIMALS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0030002957     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.84.4.0634     Document Type: Article

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