Summary
We report here the usefulness of ventriculography by means of percutaneous injection of a recently developed water-soluble contrast medium of great safety through a shunt flushing reservoir; the method is called trans-reservoiral ventriculography (TRV), and is presented here in twelve clinical cases.
The TRV is especially useful in observing the course of brain tumour after either surgical or non-surgical treatment.
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Suzuki, S., Ottomo, M. & Suzuki, M. Trans-reservoiral ventriculography (TRV). Acta neurochir 45, 311–318 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01769144
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