Double compartment hydrocephalus in a patient with cysticercosis meningitis

DeFeo, D.; Foltz, E.L.; Hamilton, A.E.

Surgical Neurology 4(2): 247-251

1975


ISSN/ISBN: 0090-3019
PMID: 1162600
Document Number: 86043
The authors discuss encystment of the fourth ventricle and upward herniation complicating a case of cysticercosis cerebri. The "double compartment" hydrocephalus followed occlusion of the aqueduct of Sylvius and the foramena of Luschka and Magendie in a patient who had previously received a ventriculo-atrial shunt for communicating hydrocephalus. The clinical presentation of this particular form of double compartment hydrocephalus is discussed.

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