Comparative study of lumboperitoneal shunt versus ventriculoperitoneal shunt in post meningitis communicating hydrocephalus in children

Neurology India

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 513-516

  Singh, Amit ^a   Vajpeyi, I ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b GSVM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Communicating hydrocephalus; lumboperitoneal shunt; ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; OBSTRUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SHUNT INFECTION; SHUNT MIGRATION; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SLIT VENTRICLE SYNDROME; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84890490693     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.121932     Document Type: Article

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