Should ventriculoatrial shunting be the procedure of choice for normal-pressure hydrocephalus?: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1458-1464

  McGovern, Robert A ^a   Kelly, Kathleen M ^a   Chan, Andrew K ^a   Morrissey, Nicholas J ^a   Mckhann II, Guy M ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Ventriculoatrial shunt; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHI SQUARE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYGROMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SHUNT INFECTION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT DURATION; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT;

NORMAL-PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS; NPH = NORMAL-PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS; VA = VENTRICULOATRIAL; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VP = VENTRICULOPERITONEAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 84901724886     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.1.JNS131808     Document Type: Article

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