Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
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The outcome of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is worse in children younger than 2 years old and especially in infants, and controversies still exist whether ETV might be superior to shunt placement in this age group. We retrospectively analyzed the data of 23 patients younger than 6 months of age treated with ETV and assessed its feasibility as a first choice of treatment for hydrocephalus. ⋯ Based on our experience, ETV could be the first method of choice for hydrocephalus in children younger than 6 months of age, especially in patients older than 3 months of age.
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Review Case Reports
Intrauterine head stab wound injury resulting in a growing skull fracture: a case report and literature review.
Penetrating injuries of the gravid uterus are rare complications of pregnancy with gunshot wounds most common than stab wounds. Fetal head injury is an unusual sequela of these penetrating traumas. ⋯ Thirty-two cases of stab wounds to the pregnant uterus have been reported to date in medical literature with two cases of fetal head injury.Growing skull fractures are rare complications of head injury and only one case has been described in the perinatal period following blunt trauma to the mother's abdomen 2-3 weeks before birth.