Manual occipital ventricular puncture for cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery: Can aiming be standardized?

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 353-357

  Shimizu, Satoru ^a,b   Tanaka, Ryusui ^a   Iida, Hideo ^b   Fuji, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b International Goodwill Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Puncture; Shunt; Ventricular catheter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHOROID PLEXUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHOROID PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUNCTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 3843140309     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.44.353     Document Type: Article

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