Ventricular catheter placement in children with hydrocephalus and small ventricles: The use of a frameless neuronavigation system

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 26-29

  Gil, Ziv ^a   Siomin, Vitaly ^b   Beni Adani, Liana ^b   Sira, Liat Ben ^b   Constantini, Shlomi ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fiducial markers; Frameless stereotaxy; Navigation guided neurosurgery; Noncompliant ventricle syndrome; Slit ventricle syndrome; Ventriculo peritoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE CATHETER; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SLIT VENTRICLE SYNDROME; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0036481007     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-001-0550-3     Document Type: Article

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