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METHOD FOR ESTIMATION AND ITS CLINICAL APPLICATION

GRAEME MITCHELL, M.D.; MENDEL ZELIGS, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1925;30(2):189-194.

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It is difficult to measure the progress of hydrocephalus. The method of estimating changes in the amount of cerebrospinal fluid by the effect produced on the size of the head is unsatisfactory, the variations in circumference showing only relatively gross changes and not giving any definite idea of the actual amount of fluid present in the cranium. The thickness of the brain tissue in the region of the parietal lobes can be gaged roughly by noting the distance it is necessary to insert a needle before the ventricles are entered, but this procedure again furnishes no information on which to base an estimate of the actual amount of fluid in the ventricles and subarachnoid space.

A knowledge of the quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in hydrocephalus would certainly be advantageous. It could be used as an index of the progress of the disease, and a variation in the amount would probably . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CINCINNATI

From the B. K. Rachford Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati.

Footnotes
Received for publication, May 9, 1925.

Read before the American Pediatric Society, Washington, D. C., May 4, 1925.

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