Infantile and Childhood Hydrocephalus
- 1 December 2022
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 387 (22), 2067-2073
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra2116504
Abstract
Enlarged ventricles early in life cause developmental delay and acute neurologic signs. Shunting of the ventricles is the definitive treatment but has many problems, and there are temporizing approaches.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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