Assessment of ventricular reconfiguration after third ventriculostomy: What does shape analysis provide in addition to volumetry?

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 689-693

  Preul, Christoph ^a   Hubsch T ^a   Lindner, D ^b   Tittgemeyer, M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; VOLUMETRY; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 33745895300     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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