Failure to treat obstructive hydrocephalus with endoscopic third ventriculostomy in a patient with neurodegenerative Langerhans cell histiocytosis: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 304-309

  Kershenovich, Amir ^a,c   Price, Angela V ^a   Koral, Korgun ^a   Goldman, Stan ^b   Swift, Dale M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Hydrocephalus; Neurodegenerative Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ETOPOSIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; STEROID; VINBLASTINE;

ABSCESS; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; ATAXIA; BIOPSY; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DEVELOPMENTAL COORDINATION DISORDER; DIPLOPIA; DIZZINESS; DYSMETRIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FENESTRATION; FLUSHING; HEADACHE; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LUNG; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAPILLEDEMA; PARAPLEGIA; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOTOMA; SKIN; STOMA; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOMITING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY;

CHILD; ENDOSCOPY; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 58149168462     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/PED.2008.2.11.304     Document Type: Article

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