Is there a difference in outcomes of patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension with the choice of cerebrospinal fluid diversion site: A single centre experience

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 477-479

  Tarnaris, Andrew ^a   Toma, Ahmed K ^a   Watkins, Laurence D ^a   Kitchen, Neil D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Benign intracranial hypertension; Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; Outcomes; Pseudotumour cerebri; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DIVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LIQUORRHEA; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNTING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAPILLEDEMA; POSTURAL HEADACHE; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNTING; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; REOPERATION; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 79958092009     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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