title: Slit ventricle syndrome with aqueduct stenosis: third ventriculostomy as definitive treatment.
abstract: Slit ventricle syndrome is a poorly understood entity characterized by features of raised intracranial pressure and small ventricles in shunt-dependent hydrocephalics. Five patients with this syndrome were treated with antisiphon devices, high pressure shunts, or subtemporal decompression, but continued to be symptomatic. Third ventriculostomy, performed as a last resort in these patients, gave encouraging results. The patient data, operative approach, and preliminary results are presented here.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neurosurgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Fewer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007427:Intracranial Pressure; D013577:Syndrome