Long-term results of a second endoscopic third ventriculostomy in children: Retrospective analysis of 40 cases

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 539-547

  Peretta, Paola ^a   Cinalli, Giuseppe ^b   Spennato, Pietro ^b   Ragazzi, Paola ^a   Ruggiero, Claudio ^b   Aliberti, Ferdinando ^b   Carlino, Christian ^a   Cianciulli, Emilio ^b  

^a REGINA MARGHERITA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b SANTOBONO PAUSILIPON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; Hydrocephalus; Neuroendoscopy; Obstruction; Repeat endoscopic third ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT STENOSIS; BRAIN ARACHNOID; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALEN VEIN; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGITIS; NERVE ANASTOMOSIS; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VEIN MALFORMATION; X RAY FILM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PEDIATRICS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 69549115180     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000350228.08523.D1     Document Type: Article

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