Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: Guidelines from the Guidelines committee of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, the Japanese society of normal pressure hydrocephalus

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 48, Issue SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Ishikawa, Masatsune ^a,i   Hashimoto, Masaaki ^b   Kuwana, Nobumasa ^c   Mori, Etsuro ^d   Miyake, Hiroji ^e   Wachi, Akihiko ^f   Takeuchi, Totaro ^f   Kazui, Hiroaki ^g   Koyama, Hiroshi ^h  

^a Kitano Hospital   (Japan)

^b Noto General Hospital   (Japan)

^c YOKOSUKA KYOSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Graduate School of Medicine

^g OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

ⁱ RAKUWAKAI OTOWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Gait disturbance; Hydrocephalus; The elderly; Urinary incontinence

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CISTERNOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GAIT DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; JAPAN; LATERAL SULCUS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDLINE; NEUROSURGERY; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; SHUNTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; VENTRICULOMEGALY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGING; CEREBRAL AQUEDUCT; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DEMENTIA; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGERY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL PUNCTURE; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 44349146545     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.48.S1     Document Type: Review

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