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Significance of pathognomonic features of normal-pressure hydrocephalus on computerized tomography

✍ Scribed by F. Yamada; S. Fukuda; H. Samejima; N. Yoshii; T. Kudo

Publisher
Springer
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
156 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0028-3940

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✦ Synopsis

In some patients with congenital or acquired hydrocephalus, a low-density area is seen around the lateral ventricle on computerized tomography. Above all, in patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus following subarachnoid hemorrhage, there appears a specific low-density area which is fan-shaped and irregular and which extends from the bilateral anterior horns to the frontal pole. This disappears or decreases with a VP shunt. Improvement of clinical symptoms is proportional to the degree of disappearance of the low-density area. The essential part of the occurrence of symptoms in patients with normal-pressure hydrocephalus depends upon a low-density area on CT.

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