Posttraumatic ventriculomegaly: Hydrocephalus or atrophy? A new approach for diagnosis using CSF dynamics

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1026-1035

  Marmarou, Anthony ^a   Abd Elfattah Foda, Montasser A ^a   Bandoh, Kuniaki ^a   Yoshihara, Masaaki ^a   Yamamoto, Takuji ^a   Tsuji, Osamu ^a   Zasler, Nathan ^a   Ward, John D ^a   Young, Harold F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

benign intracranial hypertension; cerebrospinal fluid dynamics; frontal horn index; high pressure hydrocephalus; normal pressure hydrocephalus; posttraumatic hydrocephalus; posttraumatic ventriculomegaly; severe head injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 10544231453     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.6.1026     Document Type: Article

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