Brain and ventricular volume in hydrocephalus.
A study is presented based on CT scans, using advanced computer techniques, to determine brain volume in a representative sample of sixteen subjects, with treated and untreated hydrocephalus, whose ventricle size varied from normal to extreme and from symmetrical to grossly asymmetrical dilatation. The calculations take into account the maximal head circumference at the time of the CT scans and the results are correlated with the patients' intellectual and neurological conditions.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D002508:Cephalometry; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000473:pathology*; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D002648:Child; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009929:Organ Size; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed