Disparity between adjusted and actual opening cerebrospinal fluid pressure in a patient with the Codman Hakim programmable valve: Occult form of shunt failure due to head banging. Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 105 PEDIATRICS, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2006, Pages 425-427

  Sato, Kimitoshi ^a   Shimizu, Satoru ^a   Utsuki, Satoshi ^a   Suzuki, Sachio ^a   Oka, Hidehiro ^a   Fujii, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Opening pressure; Pediatric neurosurgery; Programmable valve; Shunt failure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMATOSE PATIENT; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAMMABLE VALVE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VALVE;

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHILD; COMA; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; REOPERATION; SOFTWARE; STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 33845616824     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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