Posture-related overdrainage: Comparison of the performance of 10 hydrocephalus shunts in vitro

Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 327-334

  Czosnyka, Zofia ^a   Czosnyka, Marek ^a   Richards, Hugh K ^a   Pickard, John D ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Overdrainage; Shunts; Testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTURAL DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; POSTURE; PRESSURE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031951739     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199802000-00069     Document Type: Article

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