title: Early third ventriculostomy in meningomyelocele infants - shunt independence?
abstract: Percutaneous anterior and posterior third ventriculostomy utilizing a McKinney leukotome has been performed with fluoroscopic control in 9 newborn infants with meningomyelocele and hydrocephalus immediately following their shunt. The procedure was instituted in 1975, and there have been no shunt revisions in such patients since that time. Wider application of this or a similar technique in newborn meningomyelocele infants seems warranted.
mesh_terms: D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008591:Meningomyelocele / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*