Post-traumatic hydrocephalus after ventricular shunt placement in a Singaporean neurosurgical unit

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 867-872

  Low, Chyi Yeu David ^a   Low, Yin Yee Sharon ^a   Lee, Kah Keow ^a   Chan, Siew Pang ^b   Ang, Beng Ti ^a  

^a NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Post traumatic hydrocephalus; Severe head injury; Ventriculomegaly; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POST TRAUMATIC HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHUNTING; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; VENTRICULAR SHUNT PLACEMENT; VENTRICULOSTOMY CATHETER; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGAPORE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891852750     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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