'Slit-ventricle Syndrome': Etiology and Treatment

Overview

Journal Pediatr Neurosci

Specialties Neurology
Pediatrics

Date 1988 Jan 1

PMID 3217284

Citations 21

Authors

F EPSTEIN

C LAPRAS

J H Wisoff

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Abstract

Between 1970 and 1986, 20 patients were treated for the 'Slit-ventricle syndrome'. Six patients had intermittent proximal shunt malfunction and 14 children had increased intracranial pressure with normal shunt function. All of the children in the second group had a relatively small calvarium. Treatment consisted of proximal shunt revision in the first group and a calvarial expansion procedure in the second. The authors discuss the differential diagnosis of the slit-ventricle syndrome and offer guidelines to appropriate treatment.

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