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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-5-5
pubmed:abstractText
The authors describe a technique for percutaneous endoscopic shunt placement to treat clinically symptomatic spinal cysts. Seven patients underwent the procedure--five with syringomyelia, one with a symptomatic perineurial cyst, and one with a large arachnoid cyst. In all patients the shunt was successfully placed, and clinical improvement occurred in six. In four patients the entire procedure was performed endoscopically, whereas in three conversion to an open surgical exposure was required for safe access of a syrinx cavity. Overall, however, the pleural or peritoneal catheter was successfully placed endoscopically in all seven patients. There were two cases of postoperative positional headaches of which one required valve revision. In one case the catheter migrated and required repositioning. Percutaneous endoscopic shunt placement appears feasible in appropriately selected patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1547-5654
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
498-504
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Arachnoid Cysts, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Catheters, Indwelling, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Endoscopy, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Equipment Failure, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Fluoroscopy, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Headache, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Magnetic Resonance Imaging, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Peritoneum, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Pleura, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Postoperative Complications, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Posture, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Preoperative Care, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Syringomyelia, pubmed-meshheading:15871494-Tarlov Cysts
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Use of percutaneous endoscopy to place syringopleural or cystoperitoneal cerebrospinal fluid shunts: technical note.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida 33136, USA. jguest@med.miami.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports