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Hydrocephalus

How is it treated?

Treatment may be by insertion of a 'shunt' to redirect the excess CSF or, in some cases, by a third ventriculostomy. This will entail a hole being made in the floor of the 3rd ventricle to allow CSF flow.

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Medical text written July 1994 by the Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. Approved by Dr C.R.Birch, Consultant Physician and Medical Director, Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham, UK. Last updated June 2003 by Dr R Bayston, ASBAH and Senior Lecturer, University of Nottingham Medical School, Nottingham, UK.

 

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