ReviewChild's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery2016
MR assessment of pediatric hydrocephalus: a road map.
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- Pediatric hydrocephalus and imaging evaluation of ventriculomegaly in the emergency setting.Pediatric radiology · 2026Review
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- Neuroimaging in Pediatric Hydrocephalus.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2019Review
- The value of CSF flow studies in the management of CSF disorders in children: a pictorial review.Insights into imaging · 2019Review
- Preterm neuroimaging and neurodevelopmental outcome: a focus on intraventricular hemorrhage, post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus, and associated brain injury.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2018Review
- Phase-contrast and three-dimensional driven equilibrium (3D-DRIVE) sequences in the assessment of paediatric obstructive hydrocephalus.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018Article
- Molecular heterogeneity and CXorf67 alterations in posterior fossa group A (PFA) ependymomas.Acta neuropathologica · 2018Article
- The oscillatory flow of the cerebrospinal fluid in the Sylvian aqueduct and the prepontine cistern measured with phase contrast MRI in children with hydrocephalus-a preliminary report.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2018Article
- Alterations in white matter microstructure are associated with goal-directed upper-limb movement segmentation in children born extremely preterm.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
- Research into the Physiology of Cerebrospinal Fluid Reaches a New Horizon: Intimate Exchange between Cerebrospinal Fluid and Interstitial Fluid May Contribute to Maintenance of Homeostasis in the Central Nervous System.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2016Review
- Evaluation of Pediatric Hydrocephalus: Clinical, Surgical, and Outcome Perspective in a Tertiary Center.Asian journal of neurosurgeryArticle
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Abstract
purposeThis study was conducted to design a rational approach to the MR diagnosis of hydrocephalus based on a pathophysiologic reevaluation of its possible mechanisms and to apply it to the different etiological contexts.
methodA review of the literature reports describing new physiologic models of production and absorption and of the hydrodynamics of the CSF was made.
resultsBesides the secretion of CSF by the choroid plexuses, and its passive, pressure-dependent transdural absorption (arachnoid villi, dural clefts, cranial, and spinal nerve sheaths), water transporters, aquaporins, allow water (if not ions and organic molecules) to exchange freely between the brain parenchyma and the CSF spaces across the ependymal and the pial interfaces (including the Virchow-Robin spaces). Consequently, the CSF bulk flow is not necessarily global, and situations of balanced absorption-secretion may occur separately in different CSF compartments such as the ventricular, intracranial, or intraspinal CSF spaces. This means that rather than from a hypothetical pressure gradient from the plexuses to the dural sinuses, the dynamics of the CSF depend on the force provided in those different compartments by the arterial systolic pulsation of the pericerebral (mostly), intracerebral, and intraventricular (choroid plexuses) vascular beds.
conclusionUsing MR imaging, diverse varieties of hydrocephalus may tentatively be explained by applying those concepts to the correspondingly diverse causal diseases. Hopefully, this may have an impact on the choice of the treatment strategies also.
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