Evans' index revisited: The need for an alternative in normal pressure hydrocephalus

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 939-944

  Toma, Ahmed K ^a   Holl, Etienne ^a   Kitchen, Neil D ^a   Watkins, Laurence D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evans' index; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Ventriculomegaly

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVANS INDEX; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHUNTING;

BRAIN; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952900892     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318208f5e0     Document Type: Article

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