Lumboperitoneal shunts: Review of 409 cases

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 188-190

  Yadav, Y R ^a   Pande, Sanjay ^a   Raina, Vijay K ^a   Singh, Manish ^a  

^a NSCB MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Lumboperitoneal shunt; Shunt; Tubercular meningitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CHILD; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNTING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADICULOPATHY; REOPERATION; SHUNT INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; BACK; HYDROCEPHALUS; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 4344669890     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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