Postoperative patterns of improvement of symptoms and degrees of satisfaction in families of patients after operations for definite idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: A long-term follow-up study

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 773-779

  Takeuchi, Totaro ^a,c   Goto, Hiromi ^b   Izaki, Kenji ^b   Tamura, Shinya ^b   Sasanuma, Zinichi ^b   Maeno, Kazushige ^b   Kikuchi, Yasuhiro ^b   Tomii, Masato ^b   Koizumi, Zinichi ^b   Watanabe, Zenichiro ^b   Numazawa, Shinichi ^b   Ito, Yasunobu ^b   Ohara, Hiroo ^b   Kowada, Masayoshi ^b   Watanabe, Kazuo ^b  

^a Gyoda General Hospital

^b Southern Tohoku General Hospital and Southern Tohoku Research Institute for Neuroscience

^c Gyoda General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

L P shunt; Mini mental state examination (MMSE); Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Outcome; V P shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SHUNTING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548020338     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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