Decreases in ventricular volume correlate with decreases in ventricular pressure in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus patients who experienced clinical improvement after implantation with adjustable valve shunts

Neurosurgery

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 582-592

  McConnell, Kathleen A ^a   Zou, Kelly H ^a   Chabrerie, Alexandra V ^a   Bailey, Nancy Olsen ^a   Black, Peter McL ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus; Programmable shunt; Ventricular volume; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PRESSURE; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROCOMPUTERS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4444307707     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000134385.23401.01     Document Type: Article

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