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The phenomenon of periventricular lucency (PVL) was first described by Greitz and Hindmarsh 1974 (7) in a patient with normal pressure hydrocephalus and not, as one might have expected, in a case of hypertensive hydrocephalus. For some time PVL was thought to be an artefact (6, 14), but the reports by Naidich (13) and Granholm (5) 1976 proved the existence of PVL in different types of hydrocephalus. The pathomechanism, the incidence and the significance of PVL for the outcome of shunt-operations are still controversial in spite of an increasing number of reports from several groups of workers (1, 3, 4, 6, 8–12, 14–16).
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Sprung, C., Grumme, T. (1980). CT Images of Periventricular Lucency (PVL) in Various Forms of Hydrocephalus. In: Grote, W., Brock, M., Clar, HE., Klinger, M., Nau, HE. (eds) Surgery of Cervical Myelopathy. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67605-5_31
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