The use of an adjustable valve to treat over-drainage of a cyst-peritoneal shunt in a child with a large sylvian fissure arachnoid cyst

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 991-994

  Hamid, N A ^a   Sgouros, S ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjustable valve; Arachnoid cyst; CSF shunt; Hydrocephalus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DEVICE; FENESTRATION; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; VALVE;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEADACHE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 27744553391     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1072-6     Document Type: Article

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