Infratentorial complications following preresection CSF diversion in children with posterior fossa tumors

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 4-11

  El Gaidi, Mohamed Ali ^a   El Nasr, Ashraf Hesham Abou ^a   Eissa, Ehab Mohamed ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

CSF diversion; Hydrocephalus; Intratumoral hemorrhage; Posterior fossa tumor; Upward transtentorial herniation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLEEDING; BRAIN HERNIA; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DIVERSION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRATUMORAL HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIGEMINAL CISTERN; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSTENTORIAL HERNIATION; VENTRICULOSTOMY; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; COMPLICATION; EPENDYMOMA; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDEMA; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; INFRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEUROENDOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THIRD VENTRICLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 84925028653     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.8.PEDS14146     Document Type: Article

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