Evaluating the Children's Hospital of Alabama endoscopic third ventriculostomy experience using the endoscopic third ventriculostomy success score: An external validation study - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 494-501

  Naftel, Robert P ^a   Reed, Gavin T ^a   Kulkarni, Abhaya V ^b   Wellons III, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endoscopy; Hydrocephalus; Neuroendoscopy; Treatment success

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY SUCCESS SCORE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALABAMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDOSCOPY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 80655148864     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.8.PEDS1145     Document Type: Article

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