Effect of vagus nerve stimulator magnet on programmable shunt settings

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 627-629

  Jandial, Rahul ^a,b   Aryan, Henry E ^a,b,c   Hughes, Samuel A ^a   Levy, Michael L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Complications; Hydrocephalus; Magnet; Programmable shunt valve; Shunt malfunction; Vagus nerve stimulator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; SHUNTING; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VALVE;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; COMORBIDITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPILEPSY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MICROCOMPUTERS; SOFTWARE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 4444262366     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000134387.75251.47     Document Type: Article

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