Lower incidence of reoperation with longer shunt survival with adult ventriculoperitoneal shunts placed for hemorrhage-related hydrocephalus

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-74

  Hoh, Brian L ^a   Lang, Shih Shan ^b   Ortiz, Michael V ^a   Chi, Yueh Yun ^b   Lewis, Stephen B ^a   Pincus, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Hemorrhage; Hydrocephalus; Malfunction; Reoperation; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURVIVAL TIME; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 58749106791     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000335072.32105.38     Document Type: Article

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