Is suicide following surgical management of intracranial hypertension a mare chance phenomenon?
Three cases of disturbed cerebrospinal fluid circulation with the resulting picture of a hydrocephalus, treated by surgery, are described. The operations performed were modified Spitz-Holter twice and Torkildsen's shunt operation once. Both the modifications are described in brief. Two of the cases were suicides, the third perhaps an accidental drowning.
Mackerle
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S
Institute of Forensic Medicine, Medical Faculty, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia.
Neoral
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L
Sýkora
J
J
Chrobok
O
O
Kosatík
A
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide