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2633061

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-5-16
pubmed:abstractText
The authors retrospectively studied 32 neonates with macrocrania associated with a pericerebral collection. Differential diagnosis was made between external communicating hydrocephalus, atypical communicating hydrocephalus, subdural hygroma and local cerebral atrophy by means of CT scan, isotope cisternography, and isotope brain scintigraphy. Especially the two last examinations are of great interest. The most important arguments in favour of operation were a rapidly increasing and uncontrolled head circumference graph and a deterioration of the psychomotor development. In this regard, 13 out of 25 patients with external communicating hydrocephalus were operated upon (lumbo-peritoneal shunt). The analysis of the results reveals that rapidly increasing macrocrania is a good operative indication and gives excellent results but psychomotor deterioration turned into normal evolution only in 14% of the operated cases. Evacuation of a subdural hydroma first by external and followed later on by internal drainage normalizes the clinical picture.
pubmed:language
fre
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0028-3770
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
35
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
390-4, 410-1
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
[Pericerebral collections. Analysis of neuroradiologic and radionuclide tests and therapeutic results].
pubmed:affiliation
Service de Neurologie et Neurochirurgie de la Clinique Universitaire, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract