Lumboperitoneal shunts

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 272-273

  Babur, Haq ^a   Torres, Quirico ^b   Savitz, Martin H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Hendrick Medical Center   (United States)

^c Good Samaritan Hospital Suffern   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid fistula; Communicating hydrocephalus; Lumboperitoneal shunts; Pseudotumor cerebri

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISTULA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PERITONEUM;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FISTULA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PERITONEUM; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI;

EID: 0034263348     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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