Optimized surgical treatment for normal pressure hydrocephalus: comparison between gravitational and differential pressure valves

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 703-709

  Suchorska, B ^a   Kunz, M ^a   Schniepp, R ^a   Jahn, K ^a   Goetz, C ^b   Tonn, J C ^a   Peraud, A ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Klinik Nord Heidberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dementia; Differential pressure valve; Gait; Gravitational valve; Incontinence; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; NPH; Outcome

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULAR CATHETER; CATHETER DISLOCATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DIVERSION DEVICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEVICE FAILURE; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE VALVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRAVITATIONAL VALVE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HYGROMA; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGICAL CATHETER; NEUROLOGICAL SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; NEUROSURGERY; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RISK; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URGE INCONTINENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 84925534942     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-015-2345-4     Document Type: Article

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