[Treatment of colloid cysts of the third ventricle by cerebrospinal fluid shunt].
The authors report 6 cases of colloid cyst of the third ventricle treated with unilateral ventriculo-atrial shunt and followed up 14 to 3 years. Today the diagnostic of these cysts is safer with C.T.-Scan and M.R.I.; in the 6 cases hydrocephalus was reduced and the volume of the cysts did not increase on C.T.-Scan controls. Nowadays the stereotactic approach seems to be safer than direct surgery but is not always a radical treatment and can be insufficient to treat hydrocephalus. We think that ventricular shunt can be a good alternative as a first and definitive treatment.
Hattab
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Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Charles-Nicolle, Rouen.
Freger
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Tadie
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Creissard
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D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000379:methods*; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Traitement des kystes colloïdes du 3e ventricule par dérivation ventriculaire.