Arachnoid cysts in adults: long-term follow-up of patients treated with internal shunts to the subdural compartment

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 56-61

  Helland, Christian A ^a,b   Wester, Knut ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Cerebrospinal fluid; Long term follow up; Shunt procedures; Subdural compartment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL BONE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HYGROMA; INVALIDITY; LIQUID; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL WARD; TEMPORAL BONE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ARACHNOID; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SUBDURAL SPACE; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745205309     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.12.032     Document Type: Article

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