Overdrainage of cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus shunts.

Overdrainage of cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus shunts.

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Peer-reviewed

Repository URI

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266668

Repository DOI

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.12748

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Authors

Czosnyka, Marek

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2446-8006

Abstract

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) in adults is an only known form of reversible dementia. Remedy is quite simple: insertion of a hydrocephalus shunt (or third ventriculostomy, however less common in NPH).

Keywords

32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, 3209 Neurosciences, 3202 Clinical Sciences

Journal Title

Acta Neurochirurgica

Journal ISSN

0001-6268
0942-0940

Volume Title

159

Publisher

Springer

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-017-3251-8

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