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- Title
Hydrocephalus associated with neural tube defects: characteristics, management, and outcome in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Authors
Warf, Benjamin C
- Abstract
The past decade has provided new insights into the causes and optimal treatment of infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, I review what we have learned in East Africa about the characteristics, management, and outcomes of hydrocephalus associated with neural tube defects, with particular emphasis on its primary treatment by endoscopic third ventriculostomy combined with choroid plexus cauterization (ETV/CPC).
- Publication
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2011, Vol 27, Issue 10, p1589
- ISSN
1433-0350
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00381-011-1484-z