Normal pressure hydrocephalus: How often does the diagnosis hold water?

Neurology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1119-1125

  Klassen, Bryan T ^a   Ahlskog, J Eric ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNSTEADINESS; URINE INCONTINENCE; AGED; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 80555143069     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31822f02f5     Document Type: Article

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