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The authors report their experience of isotope cisternography and ventriculography with I131 or Tc99m labelled albumin. Eighty-nine patients with different neurosurgical diseases responsible for alterations of the C.S.F. circulation and absorption were studied during a twenty months' period. The codition studied included; communicating hydrocephalus, obstrucsive hydrocephalus, pseudotumor cerebri, hemispherectomy, alteration of C.S.F. circulation following neurosurgical procedures, and C.S.F. rhinorrhoea.
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Frigeni, G., Gaini, S.M., Paoletti, P. et al. Isotope cisternography. Acta neurochir 25, 145–163 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01809097
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