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Title

A Simple CSF Manometric Test for Adult Hydrocephalus Associated with Dementia.

Authors

Braham, J.; Sarova-Pinhas, Ida; Front, D.; Goldhammer, Y.

Abstract

In some adult patients with dementia and/or disorders of gait, symptoms have been related to communicating hydrocephalus: isotope encephalography demonstrates an associated CSF circulation/absorption abnormality. A simple manometric test involving pressure readings after removal and re-introduction of CSF is described. It has shown a distinctive pattern, correlating with radio-isotope studies in 14 patients, in the separation of this condition from other causes of adult dementia. The test also gave useful information in 2 of these patients concerning patency of the ventriculoatrial shunt apparatus. Copyright © 1971 S. Karger AG, Basel

Publication

European Neurology, 1971, Vol 5, Issue 5, p294

ISSN

0014-3022

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1159/000114082