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Using laparoscopy for ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement Date: December 23, 2014 Source: Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group Summary: Researchers conducted a prospective randomized ...
Using laparoscopy for ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement Peer-Reviewed Publication Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group ...
Six months ago, he had a VP shunt surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus in our hospital, with the symptom of unsteady gait. The gait was markedly improved after the shunting procedure.
Muram, S., et al. (2022) A standardized infection prevention bundle for reduction of CSF shunt infections in adult ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery performed without antibiotic-impregnated ...
Laparoscopic VP Shunt Placement (IMAGE) Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group Caption A 5-mm optic trocar is inserted next to the navel after a sufficient pneumoperitoneum has been established.
The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated with high mortality ...
RESULTS: The median age of the 28 males and 24 females was 7.5 years (range, 0.6 to 21.4 years). The primary CNS tumors included medulloblastoma (n = 29), astrocytoma (n = 10), ependymoma (n = 5), ...
Hospital officials said the surgery was the first of its kind performed in Montana. About 1 in 100,000 births have a complication similar to Emersyn's, making the shunt procedure very rare.