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Thirty-one hydrocephalic patients were investigated prospectively by means of computed tomographic scan performed prior to and one week after cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting. Planimetric measurements of the size of the ventricles were compared before and after shunting. Children under two years of age and elderly patients showed significantly less reduction in the size of the ventricles (8.5±6.3% and 9.7±3.5% respectively) than older children and young adults (61.2±5.2%) (mean±SEM). The degree of reduction of ventricular size did not correlate well with the pre-operative size of the ventricles, the duration of disease, or the degree of clinical improvement.
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Cardoso, E.R., Del Bigio, M.R. (1991). Age-Related Changes of Cerebral Ventricular Size. Part II: Normalization of ventricular size following shunting. In: Matsumoto, S., Sato, K., Tamaki, N., Oi, S. (eds) Annual Review of Hydrocephalus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11158-1_53
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