Spontaneous ventriculostomy: Report of three cases revealed by flow- sensitive phase-contrast cine MR imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1647-1652

  Rovira, Alex ^a,b   Capellades, Jaume ^a   Grivé, Elisenda ^a   Poca, Maria A ^a   Pedraza, Salvador ^a   Sahuquillo, Juan ^a   Rodríguez Baeza, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THIRD VENTRICLE; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 0032727429     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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