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  • Title: Percutaneous ventriculocisternal shunt. Technical note.
    Author: Fox JL, Al-Mefty O.
    Journal: Surg Neurol; 1985 Aug; 24(2):184-6. PubMed ID: 4012576.
    Abstract:
    A modification of the Torkildsen ventriculocisternal shunting procedure, used successfully in a patient with bilateral obstruction of the foramina of Monro, is described. Through bilateral occipital burr holes, a "U-tube" system interconnected the two lateral ventricles. Spinal fluid was then drained with a separate Spetzler catheter passed from one lateral ventricle into the cisterna magna. A posterior percutaneous insertion technique (standard puncture of the cisterna magna) was used to place the catheter into this subarachnoid space.
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