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Epidural monitoring is the least invasive of the present-day techniques for measuring intracranial pressure (ICP) because it preserves the integrity of the dura, but it is not always the most accurate technique (1,2,3). However, analogous data have been demonstrated between epidurally placed transducers and ventricular fluid pressure catheters (4). We have measured epidural pressure in a total of 11 patients, in three of whom subdural pressure transducers were used as well. In two other patients, a subdural pressure transducer and a ventricular catheter were used. We found no significant discrepancies between the different types of measurement (5). It was our objective to check these findings in a series of animal experiments.
Done with G.T. Tindall, K. Iwata, P. Griffith, and R. Vanderveer in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Unviersity of Texas Medical School at Galveston, Texas.
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McGraw, C.P. (1975). Epidural Intracranial Pressure Monitoring. In: Lundberg, N., Pontén, U., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66086-3_91
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