Treatment of hydrocephalus with meningitis - ventriculitis, cyst tumors and brain abcesses by hand-made reservoir
- Author:
Viet Van Truong
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
ydrocephalus
- MeSH:
Hydrocephalus;
Meningitis
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
1999;232(1):198-203
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Hydrocephalus with ventriculitis, meningitis is a difficult problem to manage due to the impossibility of applying the ventrioculo-peritoneal shunt to reduce the intracranial pressure. The cerebro-spinal fluid can not also be drained outside for longterm by a tube. To solve this problem, the authors have used the hand-made reservoir which bases on the Salmon Rickham Reservoir to withdraw the cerebro-spinal fluid and to inject drugs into ventricles. This procedure is also applied to the brain abscess and cerebral cystic tumor.
