What is the ideal initial valve pressure setting in neonates with ventriculoperitoneal shunts?

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 169-174

  Korinth, Marcus C ^a   Gilsbach, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CSF shunt complication; Hydrocephalus; Neonates; Overdrainage; Programmable shunt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMPLANTATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALVE; WOUND HEALING;

BRAIN; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PRESSURE; PRONE POSITION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0036249633     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056052     Document Type: Article

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