Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Unstable Intracranial Pressure and Clinical Outcome in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplement

Volumn 1998, Issue SUPPL. 71, 1998, Pages 354-356

  Qureshi, A I ^a   Williams, Michael A ^a,b   Razumovsky, A Y ^a   Hanley, D F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Division of Neurosciences Critical Care   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical outcome; Corpus callosum; Magnetic resonance imaging; Normal pressure hydrocephalus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0032254171     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6475-4_102     Document Type: Article

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