Slit ventricle syndrome after cyst-peritoneal shunting for temporal arachnoid cyst in children - A clinical entity difficult to detect on neuroimaging study

Brain and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 776-779

  Sunami, Kenro ^a   Saeki, Naokatsu ^b   Sunada, Souichi ^a   Hoshi, Seiichiro ^a   Murai, Hisayuki ^b   Kubota, Motoo ^a   Takanashi, Jun ichi ^b   Yamaura, Akira ^b  

^a Kawatetsu Chiba Hospital   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cyst peritoneal shunt; Slit ventricle syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MANNITOL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIPLOPIA; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PAPILLEDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PUNCTURE; SHUNTING; SLIT VENTRICLE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0036891043     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(02)00087-6     Document Type: Article

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