Breastfeeding: A potential protective factor against ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection in young infants

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-141

  Nejat, Farideh ^a,d   Tajik, Parvin ^b   Ghodsi, Syed Mohammad ^c   Golestan, Banafsheh ^b   Majdzadeh, Reza ^b   Yazdani, Shahrooz ^a   Ansari, Saeed ^a   Dadmehr, Majid ^a   Ganji, Sara ^a   Najafi, Mehri ^a   Farahmand, Fatemeh ^a   Moatamed, Farzaneh ^a  

^a Children's Hospital Medical Center

^b School of Public Health

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Cerebrospinal fluid leakage; Formula; Hydrocephalus; Pediatric neurosurgery; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; IRAN; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 40849138167     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/PED/2008/1/2/138     Document Type: Article

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