Shunt-related craniocerebral disproportion: Treatment with cranial vault expanding procedures

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 229-235

  Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a,b   Ruiz Espejo Vilar, Antonio ^a   Pérez Espejo, Miguel A ^a,b   Almagro, María José ^a   Ros De San Pedro, Javier ^a   Felipe Murcia, Matías ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acquired craniosynostosis; Cranial vault expansion; Craniocerebral disproportion; CSF overdrainage syndromes; CSF shunt complications; Slit ventricle syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CIRCULATION DISORDER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FORAMEN MAGNUM; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKULL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747761614     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-006-0022-z     Document Type: Article

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