Problems of diagnosis and treatment in the Dandy-Walker syndrome.
10 children with Dandy-Walker syndrome are presented to discuss their clinical assessment and therapy. The presence on physical examination of a large posterior fossa was the most reliable clinical finding and was diagnostic in 9 out of the 10 patients. The different diagnostic confirmatory studies are discussed. The most satisfactory treatment in this series was the combination of a shunt from the lateral ventricle and the posterior fossa to the peritoneum.
D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003616:Dandy-Walker Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010537:Peritoneum / Q000601:surgery