Long-term experience with subcutaneously tunneled external ventricular drainage in preterm infants

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-109

  Berger, Angelika ^a   Weninger, Manfred ^a   Reinprecht, Andrea ^b   Haschke, Nadja ^a   Kohlhauser, Christina ^a   Pollak, Arnold ^a  

^a ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

External ventricular drainage; Intraventricular periventricular hemorrhage; Posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus; Preterm infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034053337     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003810050022     Document Type: Article

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