Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Child's Nervous System
Published in: Child's Nervous System 12/2006

01-12-2006 | Focus Session

Why a Focus Session on endoscopic third ventriculostomy in infants?

Author: Wolfgang Wagner

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 12/2006

Login to get access

Excerpt

Since its “renaissance” in the late 1980s, endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) gained a growing acceptance and, eventually, an established place in the surgical treatment of obstructive hydrocephalus. It soon became clear, however, that a part of the patients undergoing that endoscopic procedure eventually failed and that the chance of curing the hydrocephalus by endoscopy alone (without a shunt) depended on several factors, from which patient’s age and etiology of hydrocephalus are the most important. …
Metadata
Title
Why a Focus Session on endoscopic third ventriculostomy in infants?
Author
Wolfgang Wagner
Publication date
01-12-2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Child's Nervous System / Issue 12/2006
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-006-0188-2

Other articles of this Issue 12/2006

Child's Nervous System 12/2006 Go to the issue

Invited Paper

A novel brainstem tumor model: functional and histopathological characterization

Cover Picture

Shiva: supreme God of all in Saivism

Original Paper

Clinical features and epileptogenesis of dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor

Original Paper

Emotional and psychological impact of delayed craniosynostosis repair

Focus Session

Long-term outcome and neurologic development after endoscopic third ventriculostomy versus shunting during infancy

Case-based Update

Germinoma with synchronous lesions in the pineal and suprasellar regions