Neuroendoscopic treatment for colloid cysts of the third ventricle: The experience of a decade

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 525-533

  Hellwig, Dieter ^a   Bauer, Bernhard L ^b   Schulte, Michael ^a   Gatscher, Silvia ^a   Riegel, Thomas ^a   Bertalanffy, Helmut ^a   Cohen, Alan R ^c   Bruce, Jeffrey N ^c   Antunes, João Lobo ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c Philipps University of Marburg ^*

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Colloid cyst; Hydrocephalus; Neuroendoscopy; Third ventricle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLOID CYST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037370190     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000047671.27057.55     Document Type: Article

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