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Publikováno v:
World Neurosurgery. 134:501-506
Ventricular catheter obstructions in patients treated with external ventricular drains (EVDs) have the potential to substantially impact the cost of patient care. There is a paucity of literature that directly addresses catheter obstruction over larg
Autor:
Charlotte Barbier, Stephanie C. TerMaath, Sofy H. Weisenberg, James Alexander Killeffer, Judith Hill
Publikováno v:
Journal of Neurosurgery. 129:1067-1077
OBJECTIVECerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunts are the primary treatment for patients suffering from hydrocephalus. While proven effective in symptom relief, these shunt systems are plagued by high failure rates and often require repeated revision surgeri
Publikováno v:
Journal of neurosurgery. 125(6)
Cerebrospinal fluid diversion via ventricular shunting is the prevailing contemporary treatment for hydrocephalus. The CSF shunt appeared in its current form in the 1950s, and modern CSF shunts are the result of 6 decades of significant progress in n
Publikováno v:
Neurosurgery Clinics of North America. 11:407-412
Thomas Willis recognized the entity of the chronic subdural hematoma (CSH) more than 300 years ago. Modern observations of the ultrastructure of normal meninges and the CSH outer neomembrane, combined with techniques of radioactive red blood cell lab
Autor:
James Alexander Killeffer
Publikováno v:
2010 Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Conference.
This presentation describes several challenges in the clinical practice of neurosurgery that may be addressed by application of nanotechnology, multimodal data acquisition and analysis, computer modeling, and materials science. Conditions including h