What can be found inside shunt catheters

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 106, 2009, Pages 81-85

  Czernicki, Z ^a,b   Strzalkowski R ^a   Walasek, N ^a   Gajkowska, B ^a  

^a MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

hydrocephalus; scanning electron microscopy; Shunt catheters; thrombotic aggregates

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL; HEMOGLOBIN;

BRAIN VENTRICLE; CATHETER; CELL AGGLUTINATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELLIPTOCYTOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; HEINZ BODY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE AGGREGATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MAST CELL; PERITONEUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPHEROCYTOSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THALASSEMIA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

EID: 78649337365     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-98811-4_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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