1. [Ventriculoscopy in pediatric neurosurgery].
- Author
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Rostotskaia VI, Grents NI, Ovchinnikov AA, and Spiridonov IV
- Subjects
- Brain Neoplasms complications, Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms diagnosis, Child, Child, Preschool, Craniopharyngioma diagnosis, Diagnosis, Differential, Endoscopy, Humans, Infant, Pituitary Neoplasms diagnosis, Brain Neoplasms diagnosis, Cerebral Ventricles, Hydrocephalus diagnosis
- Abstract
Ventriculoscopy is a simple, safe and informative method of examination of the lateral and third ventricles of the brain in childhood. In hydrocephalus of non-tumorous origin ventriculoscopy makes its possible, as a rule, to determine the origin of the dropsy and its character. The diagnosis of tumor of the brain of intraventricular or paraventricular localization and also of a tumor growing into the lumen of a cerebral ventricle is made on the basis of direct and indirect signs found during a visual examination. The histological nature of the process may be determined by biopsy of the pathological tissue collected during ventriculoscopy.
- Published
- 1978