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Does the ventricle size change after shunt operation of normal-pressure hydrocephalus?

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Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring XII

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Warener Straße 7, 12683, Berlin, Germany

    U. Meier

  2. Department of Radiology, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    S. Mutze

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  1. Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wai S. Poon , Matthew T. V. Chan , Keith Y. C. Goh , Joseph M. K. Lam  & Stephanie C. P. Ng , , ,  & 

  2. Medical College of Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA

    Anthony Marmarou

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  4. Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    John D. Pickard , Marek Czosnyka  & Peter J. A. Hutchinson ,  & 

  5. School of Medicine, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoichi Katayama

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Meier, U., Mutze, S. (2005). Does the ventricle size change after shunt operation of normal-pressure hydrocephalus?. In: Poon, W.S., et al. Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring XII. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 95. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-32318-X_52

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