Abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocysts

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 755-758

  Erşahin, Yusuf ^a,b   Mutluer, Saffet ^a   Tekeli, Gürkan ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst; Cerebrospinal fluid shunt; Hydrocephalus; Shunt infection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; SHUNTING; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0030478024     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00261593     Document Type: Article

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