Congenital Hydrocephalus

References

Citations

1. Feldstein NA, Anderson R (2006). Diagnosis and management of hydrocephalus. In FD Burg et al., eds., Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th ed., pp. 374–377. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

2. Seiff ME (2003). Hydrocephalus section of Developmental, neurocutaneous, and genetic metabolic disorders. In RW Evans, ed., Saunders Manual of Neurologic Practice, pp. 889–895. Phildelphia: Saunders.

3. Whitelaw A, et al. (2007). Diuretic therapy for newborn infants with posthemorrhagic ventricular dilatation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2).

4. Kulkarni AV, et al. (2001). Cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection: A prospective study of risk factors. Journal of Neurosurgery, 94(2): 195–201.

Other Works Consulted

• Fishman MA (2003). Hydrocephalus section of Disturbances in neural tube closure and spine. In CD Rudolph et al., eds., Rudolph's Pediatrics, 21st ed., pp. 2180–2184. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Kinsman SL, Johnston MV (2007). Hydrocephalus section of Congenital anomalies of the central nervous system. In RM Kliegman et al., eds., Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 18th ed., pp. 2452–2455. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

• Prockop LD (2005). Hydrocephalus. In LP Rowland, ed., Merritt's Neurology, 11th ed., chap. 49, pp. 349–356. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

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