Emergency transorbital ventricular puncture: Refinement of external landmarks: Laboratory investigation

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1191-1192

  Tubbs, R Shane ^a   Loukas, Marios ^b   Shoja, Mohammadali M ^c   Cohen Gadol, Aaron A ^c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Emergency decompression; Hydrocephalus; Intracranial pressure; Ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CATHETER ASPIRATION; FEMALE; FORAMEN OF MONRO; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; ORBIT; PERFORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; SKULL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TRANSORBITAL VENTRICULAR PUNCTURE; FACE; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE; NEUROSURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORBIT;

EID: 74949106179     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.3.JNS081651     Document Type: Article

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