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Cerebrospinal Fluid

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Pediatric Nuclear Medicine

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Sensitive, elegant assessments of normal and abnormal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) dynamics can be obtained with relatively straightforward planar scintigraphy, and they deserve consideration as diagnostic tools for disorders affecting the CSF. The introduction of computed tomography (CT) and later magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has resulted in a reduction in the use of radionuclide cisternography. The method continues to be used in conjunction with clinical examination, structural imaging, and other neurological procedures in children to aid in the evaluation of selected clinical problems, such as evaluation of shunt function in the treated hydrocephalic patient.

Some of the concepts and portions of the wording in this chapter were contributed by K. Welch, M.D., formerly Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital, who was a coauthor of this chapter in the First Edition of Pediatric Nuclear Medicine.

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    S. T. Treves M.D. (Chief, Professor of Radiology) (Chief, Professor of Radiology)

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Treves, S.T., O’Tuama, L.A., Kuruc, A. (1995). Cerebrospinal Fluid. In: Treves, S.T. (eds) Pediatric Nuclear Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4205-3_7

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