"Ventriculostomy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Surgical creation of an opening in a cerebral ventricle.
| Descriptor ID |
D014696
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.035.188.957 E04.525.170.860
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ventriculostomy" by people in Profiles.
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Letter re: Diagnosis of ventriculostomy-related infection: Is cerebrospinal fluid lactate measurement a useful tool? J Clin Neurosci. 2018 02; 48:246.
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An Onyx tunnel: reconstructive transvenous balloon-assisted Onyx embolization for dural arteriovenous fistula of the transverse-sigmoid sinus. J Neurosurg. 2018 10; 129(4):922-927.
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CSF lactate alone is not a reliable indicator of bacterial ventriculitis in patients with ventriculostomies. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2017 Jun; 157:95-98.
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Practice on an augmented reality/haptic simulator and library of virtual brains improves residents' ability to perform a ventriculostomy. Simul Healthc. 2013 Feb; 8(1):25-31.
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Preoperative third ventricular bowing as a predictor of endoscopic third ventriculostomy success. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Feb; 9(2):182-90.
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Should we use stents in subarachnoid hemorrhage? J Neurosurg Sci. 2011 Mar; 55(1):35-8.
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Risk of ventriculostomy-related hemorrhage in patients with acutely ruptured aneurysms treated using stent-assisted coiling. J Neurosurg. 2011 Apr; 114(4):1021-7.
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Lower dose intraventricular T-PA fibrinolysis: case report. Surg Neurol. 2004 May; 61(5):460-3; discussion 463.