 Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
"Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Surgical creation of a communication between a cerebral ventricle and the peritoneum by means of a plastic tube to permit drainage of cerebrospinal fluid for relief of hydrocephalus. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D017287
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.035.188.850 E04.525.170.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt- Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
- Shunt, Ventriculoperitoneal
- Shunts, Ventriculoperitoneal
- Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts
- Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunt
- Shunt, Ventriculo-peritoneal
- Shunts, Ventriculo-peritoneal
- Ventriculo peritoneal Shunt
- Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunts
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt" by people in Profiles.
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Woo PY, Teoh JY, Wong GK, Zhu XL, Siu DY, Kwan MC, Poon WS. A 45-year-old woman with reversible bilateral hearing loss. Neurology. 2013 Jan 15; 80(3):e23-6.
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Simos PG, Papanicolaou AC, Castillo EM, Juranek J, Cirino PT, Rezaie R, Fletcher JM. Brain mechanisms for reading and language processing in spina bifida meningomyelocele: a combined magnetic source- and structural magnetic resonance imaging study. Neuropsychology. 2011 Sep; 25(5):590-601.
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Wong GK, Wong SM, Poon WS. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection: intravenous antibiotics, shunt removal and more aggressive treatment? ANZ J Surg. 2011 Apr; 81(4):307.
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Steinbok P, Milner R, Agrawal D, Farace E, Leung GK, Ng I, Tomita T, Wang E, Wang N, Wong GK, Zhou LF. A multicenter multinational registry for assessing ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections for hydrocephalus. Neurosurgery. 2010 Nov; 67(5):1303-10.
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Hasan KM, Eluvathingal TJ, Kramer LA, Ewing-Cobbs L, Dennis M, Fletcher JM. White matter microstructural abnormalities in children with spina bifida myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus: a diffusion tensor tractography study of the association pathways. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008 Apr; 27(4):700-9.
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