External ventricular drain insertion accuracy: Is there a need for change in practice?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1197-1200

  Toma, Ahmed K ^a   Camp, Sophie ^a   Watkins, Laurence D ^a   Grieve, Joan ^a   Kitchen, Neil D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute hydrocephalus; External ventricular drain; Ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAIN INSERTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74349104522     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000356973.39913.0B     Document Type: Article

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