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Complications of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy

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Hydrocephalus (Greek hydro, water, and kephale, head) is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the ventricles of the brain (Abbott 2004; Cohen 1993a; Vogel et al. 2013). Symptoms and signs are commonly attributed to elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) (Cohen 1993a). Several classification schemes have been developed to describe hydrocephalus: obstructive (symptomatic) versus ex vacuo (cerebral atrophy), noncommunicating (obstruction between the ventricles and subarachnoid space) versus communicating (obstruction downstream from subarachnoid space), and congenital versus acquired (Tully and Dobyns 2014; Chakraborty et al. 2012; Corns and Martin 2012).

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  1. Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N Wolfe, Phipps 556, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Roberta Rehder

  2. Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Phipps 556, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA

    Alan R. Cohen

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  2. Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, California, USA

    Dachling Pang

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    James T. Rutka

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  2. Pediatric Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurosurgery, Catholic University Medical School, Largo “A. Gemelli”,8, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Gianpiero Tamburrini

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Rehder, R., Cohen, A.R. (2017). Complications of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy. In: Di Rocco, C., Pang, D., Rutka, J. (eds) Textbook of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31512-6_38-1

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