Normal pressure hydrocephalus

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 58-65

  Tsakanikas, Diamanto ^a   Relkin, Norman ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicating adult hydrocephalus; Diagnosis; INPH; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; NPH; Outcome; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MICTURITION; MICTURITION DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSONISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SHUNTING;

BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; LATERAL VENTRICLES; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33846908086     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-956756     Document Type: Article

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