Initial experience with combined endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization for post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity: The importance of prepontine cistern status and the predictive value of FIESTA MRI imaging

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1063-1071

  Warf, Benjamin C ^a   Campbell, Jeffrey W ^b   Riddle, Eric ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroid plexus cauterization; Endoscopic third ventriculostomy; FIESTA imaging; Hydrocephalus; Outcome; Post hemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY; FAST IMAGING EMPLOYING STEADY STATE ACQUISITION; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMAGING; INFANT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POST HEMORRHAGIC HYDROCEPHALUS OF PREMATURITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREPONTINE CISTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; VENTRICULOSCOPY;

CAUTERY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CISTERNA MAGNA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; THIRD VENTRICLE; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 79959611495     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-011-1475-0     Document Type: Article

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