Postoperative communicating hydrocephalus in patients with supratentorial malignant glioma

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-15

  Inamasu, Joji ^a   Nakamura, Yoshiki ^a   Saito, Ryoichi ^a   Kuroshima, Yoshiaki ^a   Mayanagi, Keita ^a   Orii, Maaya ^a   Ichikizaki, Kiyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION TOKYO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Communicating hydrocephalus; Leptomeningeal metastasis; Malignant glioma; Ventriculo peritoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MENINX; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0344982905     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-8467(03)00060-X     Document Type: Article

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