Chronic Hydrocephalus — Puncture
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The clinical effect of lumbar puncture in normal pressure hydrocephalus.
Owing to all the difficulties involved in selecting patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus for shunt-operation, a cerebrospinal fluid-tap-test (CSF-TT) is introduced. Psychometric and motor capacities of the patients are measured before and after lumbar puncture and removal of 40-50 ml CSF. Patients fulfilling criteria for normal pressure hydrocephalus were compared to patients with dement...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1897
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm189712301372704