Surface ultrastructure of tissues occluding ventricular catheters.
Specimens of material occluding ventricular catheters removed at shunt revision operations were studied by scanning electron microscopy. Immediate fixation allowed examination of human choroid plexus and ependyma which resembled living tissue.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002831:Choroid Plexus / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D004805:Ependyma / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000601:surgery; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008875:Middle Aged