Dual-Switch Valve: Clinical Performance of a New Hydrocephalus Valve

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplement

Volumn 1998, Issue SUPPL. 71, 1998, Pages 360-363

  Trost, H A ^a   Sprung, Ch ^b   Lanksch, W ^b   Stolke, D ^c   Miethke, C ^d  

^a KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d Christoph Miethke GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dual switch valve; Hydrocephalus; Overdrainage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032252367     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6475-4_104     Document Type: Article

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