Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: RESULTS: There was no statistically significant difference in the aqueductal stenosis and tumor subgroups (P=0.716). A high rate of functioning ventriculostomies was found in both subgroups: 12 of 14 in the aqueductal stenosis subgroup and eight of nine in the tumor subgroup. In cases of intraventricular tumors, in addition to ventriculostomy, biopsy was performed that successfully helped the patient management. In the present study, the procedure failed in three patients (13%). Ventriculostomy failures occurred within three months after the operation. The cases of treatment failure were one with aqueductal stenosis, one with Chiari I, and one with pineocytoma. There was no permanent morbidity after ventriculostomy in our patients. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Omidvar Rezaee, Guive Sharifi, Mohammad Samadian, Karim Haddadian, Ali Ali-Asgari, Moslem Yazdani |
Journal | Archives of Iranian medicine
(Arch Iran Med)
Vol. 10
Issue 4
Pg. 498-503
(Oct 2007)
ISSN: 1029-2977 [Print] Iran |
PMID | 17903055
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Endoscopy
(methods)
- Female
- Humans
- Hydrocephalus
(therapy)
- Infant
- Kaplan-Meier Estimate
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Third Ventricle
(surgery)
- Ventriculostomy
(methods)
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