The adjustable proGAV shunt: A prospective safety and reliability multicenter study

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 465-474

  Sprung, Christian ^a   Schlosser, Hans Georg ^a   Lemcke, Johannes ^b   Meier, Ullrich ^b   Messing Jünger, Martina ^c   Trost, Hans Axel ^d   Weber, Friedrich ^e   Schul, Christoph ^f   Rohde, Veit ^g   Ludwig, Hans Christian ^g   Höpfner, Jürgen ^h   Sepehrnia, Abolghassem ⁱ   Mirzayan, M Javad ^j   Krauss, Joachim K ^j  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Unfallkrankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

^c Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

^e KRANKENHAUS MERHEIM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h KLINIKUM KASSEL   (Germany)

ⁱ Clemenshospital Munster   (Germany)

^j HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Adjustable valve; Hydrocephalus; Shunt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNTING; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649088398     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000365272.77634.6B     Document Type: Article

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