Surgical treatment of 13 pediatric patients with Dandy-Walker syndrome

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 358-363

  Yüceer, Nurullah ^a   Mertol, Tansu ^a   Arda, Nuri ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid shunt; Dandy Walker malformation; Hydrocephalus; Posterior fossa

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYST; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HEAD; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MENINGITIS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNT INFECTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DANDY-WALKER SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548390207     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000106383     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Dandy WE, Blackfan KD: Internal hydrocephalus. An experimental, clinical and pathological study. Am J Dis Child 1914;3:406-482.
2. Sutton JB: The lateral recesses of the fourth ventricle: their relation to certain cysts and tumours of the cerebellum, and to occipital meningocele. Brain 1887;9:352-361.
3. Taggart JK Jr, Walker AE: Congenital atresia of the foramen of Luschka and Magendie. Arch Neurol Psychiatry 1942;48:583-612.
4. Benda CE: The Dandy-Walker syndrome or the so-called atresia of the foramen Magendie. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1954;13:14-29.
5. Hirsch JF, Kahn AP, Renier D, Rose CS, Hirsch EH: The Dandy-Walker malformation. A review of 40 cases. J Neurosurg 1984;61:515-522.
6. Kalidasan V, Carroll T, Allcutt D, Fitzgerald RJ: The Dandy-Walker syndrome. A 10 year experience of its management and outcome. Eur J Pediatr Surg 1995;5(suppl 1):S16-S18.
7. Raimondi AJ, Samuelson G, Yarzagaray L, et al: Atresia of the foramina of Luschka and Magendie: the Dandy-Walker cyst. J Neurosurg 1969;31:202-216.
8. Sawaya R, McLaurin RL: Dandy-Walker syndrome. Clinical analysis of 23 cases. J Neurosurg 1981;55:89-98.
9. Chitayat D, Moore L, DelBigio MR, MacGregor D, Ben-Zeev B, Hodgkinson K, Deck J, Stothers T, Ritchie S, Toi A: Familial Dandy-Walker malformation associated with macrocephaly, facial anomalies, developmental delay, and brain stem dysgenesis: prenatal diagnosis and postnatal outcome in brothers. A new syndrome? Am J Med Genet 1994;52:406-415.
10. Murray C, Johnson JA, Bird TD: Dandy-Walker malformation: etiologic heterogeneity and empiric recurrence risks. Clin Genet 1985;28:272-283.
11. Osenbach RK, Menezes AH: Diagnosis and treatment of the Dandy-Walker malformation: 30 years of experience. Pediatr Neurosurg 1992;18:179-189.
12. James HE, Kaiser G, Schut L, et al: Problems of diagnosis and treatment in the Dandy-Walker syndrome. Childs Brain 1979;5:24-30.
13. Shurtleft DB, Kronmal R, Foltz EL: Follow-up comparison of hydrocephalus with and without myelomeningocele. J Neurosurg 1975;42:61-68.
14. Klein O, Pierre-Kahn A, Boddaert N, Parisot D, Brunelle F: Dandy-Walker malformation: prenatal diagnosis and prognosis. Childs Nerv Syst 2003;19:484-489.
15. Asai A, Hoffman J, Hendrick B, Humphrey P: The Dandy-Walker syndrome: experience at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. Pediatr Neurosci 1989;15:66-73.
16. Nishimaki S, Yoda H, Seki K, Kawakami T, Akamatsu H, Iwasaki Y: A case of Dandy-Walker malformation associated with occipital meningocele microphthalamia, and cleft palate. Pediatr Radiol 1990;20:608-609.
17. Hart MN, Malamud N, Ellis WG: The Dandy-Walker syndrome. A clinicopathological study based on 28 cases. Neurology 1972;22:771-780.
18. Kumar R, Jain MK, Chhabra K: Dandy-Walker syndrome: different modalities of treatment and outcome in 42 cases. Childs Nerv Syst 2001;17:348-352.
19. Kalayci M, Cagavi F, Bayar U, Gul S, Dursun A, Ermis B, Acikgoz B: Neurocutaneous melanosis associated with Dandy-Walker malformation. Case report. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2006;148:1103-1106;discussion 1106.
20. Koyama T, Okudera H, Tada T, Wada N, Kobayashi S: Periventricular enhancement following intraoperative CT cisternography in a patient with Dandy-Walker syndrome. Case report. Neurosurg Rev 1997;20:288-290.
21. Ozgen T, Acikgoz B: CSF dynamics in Dandy-Walker syndrome. Acta Neurochir 1990;104:54-58.
22. Mohanty A: Endoscopic third ventriculostomy with cystoventricular stent placement in the management of dandy-walker malformation: technical case report of three patients. Neurosurgery 2003;53:1223-1229.
23. Udvarhelyi GB, Epstein MH: The so-called Dandy-Walker syndrome: analysis of 12 operated cases. Childs Brain 1975;1:158-182.
24. Pillay P, Barnett HG, Lanzeiri C, Cruse R: Dandy Walker cyst upward herniation: the role of MRI and double shunts. Pediatr Neurosci 1989;15:74-79.
25. Foltz EL, Shurtleft DB: Conversion of communicating hydrocephalus to stenosis or occlusion of the aqueduct during ventricular shunt. J Neurosurg 1966;24:522-529.
26. Hawkins JC III, Hoffman HJ, Humphreys RP: Isolated fourth ventricle as a complication of ventricular shunting. J Neurosurg 1978;49:910-913.
27. Naidich FP, Radkowski MA, McLone DG, Lashma J: Chronic cerebral herniation in shunted Dandy-Walker malformation. Radiology 1985;158:431-434.
28. Kawaguchi T, Jokura H, Kusaka Y, Shirane R, Yoshimoto T: Intraoperative direct neuroendoscopic observation of the aqueduct in Dandy-Walker malformation. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2003;145:63-67.
29. Sikorski CW, Curry DJ: Endoscopic, single-catheter treatment of Dandy-Walker syndrome hydrocephalus: technical case report and review of treatment options. Pediatr Neurosurg 2005;41:264-268.
30. Weinzierl MR, Coenen VA, Korinth MC, Gilsbach JM, Rohde V: Endoscopic transtentorial ventriculocystostomy and cystoventriculoperitoneal shunt in a neonate with Dandy-Walker malformation and associated aqueductal obstruction. Pediatr Neurosurg 2005;41:272-277.
31. Boddaert N, Klein O, Ferguson N, Sonigo P, Parisot D, Hertz-Pannier L, et al: Intellectual prognosis of the Dandy-Walker malformation in children: the importance of vermian lobulation. Neuroradiology 2003;45:320-324.