Endoscopic Management of Supratentorial Ventricular Neurocysticercosis: Case Series and Review of the Literature

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 331-334

  Psarros, Thomas G ^a   Krumerman, J ^a   Coimbra, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Neurocysticercosis; Shunt; Ventriculocisternostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AKINETIC MUTISM; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST RUPTURE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SEPTUM PELLUCIDOTOMY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SUPRATENTORIAL VENTRICULAR NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 1442340119     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-812470     Document Type: Review

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