Conversion of external ventricular drains to ventriculoperitoneal shunts after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Effects of site and protein/red blood cell counts on shunt infection and malfunction. Clinical article (Journal of Neurosurgery (2008) 109, (1001-1004) DOI: 10.3171/JNS.2008.109.12.1001);Conversion of external ventricular drains to ventriculoperitoneal shunts after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Effects of site and protein/red blood cell counts on shunt infection and malfunction - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1001-1004

  Rammos, Stylianos ^a   Klopfenstein, Jeffrey ^a   Augsburger, Lori ^a   Wang, Huan ^a   Wagenbach, Anne ^b   Poston, Jennifer ^a   Lanzino, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicating hydrocephalus; Shunt infection; Shunt malfunction; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SHUNT INFECTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; INDWELLING CATHETER; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 58149375489     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/JNS.2008.10.1001a     Document Type: Erratum

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