Neuroendoscopic treatment of arachnoid cysts of the quadrigeminal cistern: A series of 14 cases - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 489-497

  Cinalli, Giuseppe ^a   Spennato, Pietro ^a   Columbano, Laura ^a   Ruggiero, Claudio ^a   Aliberti, Ferdinando ^a   Trischitta, Vincenzo ^a   Buonocore, Maria Consiglio ^a   Cianciulli, Emilio ^a  

^a SANTOBONO PAUSILIPON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Intracranial cyst; Third ventriculostomy; Ventriculocystostomy

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGERY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIGEMINAL CISTERN ARACHNOID CYST; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATERAL VENTRICLES; NEUROENDOSCOPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; REOPERATION; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TECTUM MESENCEPHALI; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 78649742902     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.8.PEDS08491     Document Type: Article

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