Frontal brain and leptomeningeal biopsy specimens correlated with cerebrospinal fluid outflow resistance and B-wave activity in patients suspected of normal-pressure hydrocephalus

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 497-502

  Bech, Rachid Azeddine ^a,b   Juhler, Marianne ^a   Waldemar, Gunhild ^a   Klinken, Leif ^a   Gjerris, Flemming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Brain; Cerebrospinal fluid pressure; Hydrocephalus; Meninges; Normal pressure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B WAVE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPTOMENINX; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARACHNOID; BIOPSY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPLIANCE; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINGES; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0031029686     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199703000-00013     Document Type: Article

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