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Technical aids for introducing cardiac catheters of atrioventricular shunts

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Performing auriculoventricular shunts for hydrocephalus, it proved to be useful to insert the heart catheter via a special introducer system.

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  1. J. Gilsbach

    Present address: Department for General Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical University Clinic, Freiburg i. Br., Federal Republic of Germany

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Gilsbach, J., Hassler, W. Technical aids for introducing cardiac catheters of atrioventricular shunts. Acta neurochir 60, 131–134 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01401759

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