Hydrocephalus in Radiation Leukoencephalopathy
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hydrocephalus is a common finding in patient with extensive intracranial pathology. this finding may have obvious cause or even happened by a subtle abnormality. some of the normal looking ventricles are really hydrocephalus when compare with previous images and some are due to nph. communicating and non-communicating hydrocephalus should be separated to divided pathologic causes. this session ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Neurology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-9942
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.55.5.705