Antibiotic impregnated external ventricular drainage and third ventriculostomy in the management of hydrocephalus associated with posterior cranial fossa tumours

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1049-1055

  Tamburrini, Gianpiero ^a   Massimi, Luca ^a   Caldarelli, Massimo ^a   Di Rocco, Concezio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antibiotic impregnated ventricular catheters; Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Hydrocephalus; Posterior cranial fossa tumours

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANASTOMOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATHETER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MALE; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOURTH VENTRICLE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASM SEEDING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 54849420880     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-008-0022-6     Document Type: Article

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