Intra-operative real-time ultrasonic guidance of intracranial shunt tube placement in infants.
Real-time-intra-operative ultrasonography via the anterior fontanelle, previously employed in hydrocephalic infants to guide placement of the proximal end of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, was used to establish a cystoperitoneal shunt in 2 infants with an enlarging midline brain cyst and to simultaneously confirm the presence of an intraventricular abscess and establish drainage in a third infant.
D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts; D003560:Cysts / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D008297:Male; D010537:Peritoneum; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014465:Ultrasonics / Q000379:methods*