A cluster of paediatric hydrocephalus in Mohale’s Hoek district of Lesotho, 2013-2016
Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2018 Background: In 2016, an unusual increase of paediatric hydrocephalus was observed in Mohale’s Hoek (MH) district, Lesotho. This study describes the epidemiology of paediatric hydrocephalus, and review the management of case-patients in MH district ...
Rudzani Climentine Mathebula +5 more
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Hydrocephalus associated with occipital encephalocele: surgical management and clinical outcome
Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2021 Background Encephaloceles are cystic congenital malformations in which central nervous system (CNS) structures, in communication with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathways, herniate through a defect in the cranium. Hydrocephalus occurs in 60–90% of patients
Mohamed Ragab Nagy, Ahmed Elsayed Saleh
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EXPERIMENTAL HYDROCEPHALUS [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1914 Internal hydrocephalus can be produced experimentally by injecting a foreign substance into the ventricles. In these experiments, aleuronat, a granular, insoluble material, has caused an acute inflammatory reaction, characterized in the first week by an exudate consisting largely of polynuclear leucocytes. Later the picture is one of a chronic process;
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Objectives: Severe post-hemorrhaghic internal hydrocephalus with almost complete atrophy of the cerebral parenchyma, as in the following case, is rare.
Internal Hydrocephalus
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Method of making an ion beam sputter-etched ventricular catheter for hydrocephalus shunt [PDF]
, 1984 The centricular catheter comprises a multiplicity of inlet microtubules. Each microtubule has both a large opening at its inlet end and a multiplicity of microscopic openings along its lateral surfaces.
Banks, B. A.
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The antiquity of hydrocephalus: the first full palaeo-neuropathological description [PDF]
, 2018 The Pathology Museum of the University of Florence houses a rich collection of anatomical specimens and over a hundred waxworks portraying pathological conditions occurring in the nineteenth century, when the museum was established.
Galassi, F. M. +7 more
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Clinical and neurophysiological changes in patients with pineal region expansions [Kliničke i neurofiziološke značajke u bolesnika s ekspanzivnim tvorbama pinealne regije] [PDF]
, 2013 In the last 20 years neurological and neurosurgical follow up of our patients with pineal region expansions (118 patients) pointed to certain clinical and neurophysiological regularities.
Hajnšek, Sanja +5 more
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Myomectomy as a pregnancy-preserving option in the carefully selected patient [PDF]
, 2002 Objectives: To present the indications for myomectomy during pregnancy and to discuss complications possibly related and unrelated to the procedure. Method and Results: A 33-year-old patient at 18 weeks of gestation underwent removal of a 1,570-gram ...
Baretton, G. +6 more
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Transient obstructive hydrocephalus due to intraventricular hemorrhage: A case report and review of literature [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Acute transient obstructive hydrocephalus is rare in adults. We describe a patient with intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) who experienced the delayed development of acute transient hydrocephalus.
Chicoine, Michael R +4 more
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Clinical Features of Pediatric Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Applicability of New ICHD-3 Criteria [PDF]
, 2018 Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is characterized by intracranial pressure >28 cmH2O in the absence of identifiable causes. Aim of this paper is to describe the clinical phenotype of pediatric IIH and to analyze the applicability of ICHD-3 ...
Barbara Battan +8 more
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