Predicting success of endoscopic third ventriculostomy: Validation of the ETV Success Score in a mixed population of adult and pediatric patients

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1447-1455

  Labidi, Moujahed ^a   Lavoie, Pascale ^a   Lapointe, Geneviève ^a   Obaid, Sami ^b   Weil, Alexander G ^b   Bojanowski, Michel W ^b   Turmel, André ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydrocephalus; Minimally invasive neurosurgery; Neuroendoscopy; Third ventriculostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN AQUEDUCT STENOSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CALIBRATION; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY SUCCESS SCORE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGOMYELOCELE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VALIDATION STUDY; VENTRICULOSTOMY; VENTRICULOSTOMY CATHETER; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THIRD VENTRICLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOSTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84951906822     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2014.12.JNS141240     Document Type: Article

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