Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

Practical Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-27

  Malm, Jan ^a   Eklund, Anders ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY URGENCY;

EID: 32444436352     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.088351     Document Type: Review

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