Endoscopic treatment of hydrocephalus in children: A controlled study using newly developed Yamadori-type ventriculoscopes

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-30

  Kamikawa, S ^a,b   Inui, A ^a   Kobayashi, N ^a   Kuwamura, K ^b   Kasuga, M ^a   Yamadori, T ^c   Tamaki, N ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KOBE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c HIMEJI DOKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pediatric hydrocephalus; Shunt complications; Shunt independence; Therapeutic ventriculoscope; Third ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SKULL MALFORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREMOR;

BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THIRD VENTRICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0035036380     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2001-13587     Document Type: Article

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