Laparoscopic peritoneal catheter placement: Results of a new method in 111 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Turner, Raymond D ^a   Rosenblatt, Steven M ^a   Chand, Bipan ^a   Luciano, Mark G ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Outcome; Shunt infection; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL SURGERY; HEAD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERITONEAL CATHETER; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT INFECTION; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNT INFECTION; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEUM; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548686139     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000289730.27706.e6     Document Type: Article

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