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Complications of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy

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Pediatric Hydrocephalus

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Justifiably, endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is considered the greatest breakthrough in the management of hydrocephalus since the introduction of Silastic shunts. Among selected patients, the procedure can render over 70% of children shunt-independent [13, 27, 28]. More recently, however, the procedure has been the focus of scrutiny, with an increased number of reports showing long-term failures and serious complications [1, 4, 8, 11, 16, 17, 23, 25]. Indeed, it is felt among the endoscopic neurosurgical community that the real complication rate may be higher than those published. Although this chapter will review both the well-known and the rarer complications of ETV, complication avoidance will constitute the main body of the text.

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  1. Pediatric Neurosurgery, Santobono-Pausilipon Children’s Hospital, Naples, Italy

    Giuseppe Cinalli MD

  2. Pediatric Neurosurgery, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France

    Christian Sainte-Rose MD

  3. Pediatric Neurosurgery, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    Wirginia June Maixner MD

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Teo, C. (2005). Complications of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy. In: Cinalli, G., Sainte-Rose, C., Maixner, W.J. (eds) Pediatric Hydrocephalus. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2121-1_29

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