Two-step surgical treatment using miniature Ommaya's reservoirs for a neonate with multiple large arachnoid cysts

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 591-594

  Kawamoto, Hitoshi ^a,b   Ikawa, Fusao ^a   Imada, Yasutaka ^a   Katoh, Humihide ^a   Hasegawa, Akihiro ^a  

^a SHIMANE PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyst wall excision; Early neonate; Miniature Ommaya's reservoir; Two step surgery

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34147164660     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-006-0257-6     Document Type: Article

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