Improved outcome in shunted iNPH with a combination of a codman hakim programmable valve and an aesculap-miethke shuntassistant

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 113-116

  Lemcke, J ^a   Meier, U ^a  

^a UNFALLKRANKENHAUS BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

gravitational valve; idipopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus; outcome; programmable valve; shunt surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMPLANTATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAIT ATAXIA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 77956033921     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: 14389746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1241179     Document Type: Article

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