Endoscopic third ventriculostomy in previously shunted children: A retrospective study

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 937-943

  Marton, Elisabetta ^a   Feletti, Alberto ^a   Basaldella, Luca ^a   Longatti, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neuroendoscopy; Obstructive hydrocephalus; Third ventriculostomy; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX MULTILOCULATED HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNT MALFUNCTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THIRD VENTRICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 77956190155     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-010-1130-1     Document Type: Article

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