Intraventricular or lumbar infusion test in adult communicating hydrocephalus? Practical consequences and clinical outcome of shunt operation

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1027-1036

  Bech Azeddine, R ^a   Gjerris, F ^a   Waldemar, G ^a   Czosnyka, M ^b   Juhler, M ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B wave activity; Communicating hydrocephalus; CSF dynamic evaluation; CSF shunt surgery; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Resistance to CSF outflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFUSION SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LATERAL VENTRICLES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 25444508221     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-005-0589-0     Document Type: Article

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