The treatment of large supratentorial arachnoid cysts in infants with cyst-peritoneal shunting and Hakim programmable valve

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 166-173

  Germanò, Antonio ^a   Caruso, Gerardo ^a   Caffo, Mariella ^a   Baldari, Sergio ^a   Calisto, Amedeo ^a   Meli, Francesco ^a   Tomasello, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cyst brain ratio; Cyst peritoneal shunting; Hakim programmable valve; Infant; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVE;

EID: 0038755273     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0702-0     Document Type: Article

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