Endoscopic options in children: Experience with 134 procedures: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-89

  Oertel, Joachim M K ^a,c   Baldauf, Joerg ^b   Schroeder, Henry W S ^b   Gaab, Michael R ^a  

^a Nordstadtkrankenhaus Hannover ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Endoscopic cystoventriculostomy; Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Endoscopic ventriculocystocisternostomy; Obstructive hydrocephalus; Pediatric neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANASTOMOSIS; AQUEDUCTOPLASTY; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN AQUEDUCT STENOSIS; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; CYSTOCISTERNOSTOMY; CYSTOVENTRICULOSTOMY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; EPENDYMOMA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; GLIOSIS; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; ISOLATED ORGAN; ISOLATED VENTRICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENINGITIS; MICROSURGERY; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEURINOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGERY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; ORGANIC PSYCHOSYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPILLOMA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SAMPLING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTOSTOMY; SHUNTING; SUBEPENDYMOMA; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TROCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; TUMOR BIOPSY; VENTRICULOCYSTOCISTERNOSTOMY; VENTRICULOSCOPY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COHORT ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65249165433     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.11.PEDS0887     Document Type: Article

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