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Nationwide survey of the etiology and associated conditions of prenatally and postnatally diagnosed congenital hydrocephalus in Japan.
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Neurologia medico-chirurgica [Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo)] 2007 Oct; Vol. 47 (10), pp. 448-52; discussion 452. - Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- A nationwide survey in 2000 investigated the causative and associated central nervous system (CNS) lesions of congenital hydrocephalus in Japan. The etiology and associated diseases in 393 patients with congenital hydrocephalus were analyzed and compared between 193 patients with prenatally diagnosed (fetal) hydrocephalus and 181 with postnatally diagnosed (infantile) hydrocephalus. Of 393 patients of congenital hydrocephalus, 355 (90.3%) had primary hydrocephalus and 28 (7.1%) had secondary hydrocephalus. Of 355 patients with primary hydrocephalus, 85 (23.9%) had simple hydrocephalus associated with no other CNS anomaly and 270 (76.1%) had complicated hydrocephalus associated with other CNS anomalies. Destructive cystic lesions, holoprosencephaly, and agenesis of the corpus callosum were significantly predominant in fetal hydrocephalus. Arachnoid cyst was somewhat predominant in infantile hydrocephalus. The majority of cases of congenital hydrocephalus were primary hydrocephalus and two thirds were complicated hydrocephalus. Several complications showed marked predominance in fetal hydrocephalus.
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- Chi-Square Distribution
Comorbidity
Data Collection
Family Health
Female
Fetal Diseases diagnosis
Humans
Hydrocephalus diagnosis
Infant, Newborn
Intracranial Hemorrhages epidemiology
Japan epidemiology
Male
Prenatal Diagnosis
Prevalence
Retrospective Studies
Siblings
Statistics, Nonparametric
Arachnoid Cysts epidemiology
Central Nervous System abnormalities
Central Nervous System Diseases epidemiology
Fetal Diseases epidemiology
Hydrocephalus epidemiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0470-8105
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Neurologia medico-chirurgica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 17965561
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2176/nmc.47.448