Surgical outcome of tuberculous meningitis hydrocephalus treated by endoscopic third ventriculostomy: Prognostic factors and postoperative neuroimaging for functional assessment of ventriculostomy - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 371-377

  Chugh, Ashish Purshottam ^a   Husain, Mazhar ^a   Gupta, Rakesh K ^b   Ojha, Bal K ^a   Chandra, Anil ^a   Rastogi, Manu ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cine phase contrast MR imaging; Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Tuberculous meningitis hydrocephalus

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; VENTRICULOSTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649111547     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.1.PEDS0947     Document Type: Article

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