Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid shunt function in hydrocephalic children using 99mTc-DTPA.

• The increasing numbers and survival of children with shunt-treated hydrocephalus make it mandatory to refine the methods for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt function evaluation. Radionuclide shuntography with 99mTc-DTPA, which has proved to be a safe and effective method, was performed in eight children with suspected CSF-shunt dysfunction. Characteristic shuntography patterns were found for proximal and distal CSF-shunt catheter obstruction as well as for overdrainage and normal CSF-shunt function. Shuntography contributed to the explanation of suspected CSF-shunt dysfunction in all children investigated.

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Adolescent

Cerebral Ventricles

radionuclide imaging

Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure

physiology

Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts

Child

Child

Preschool

Female

Humans

Hydrocephalus

radionuclide imaging

surgery

Infant

Male

Neurologic Examination

Organotechnetium Compounds

diagnostic use

Oximes

diagnostic use

Postoperative Complications

radionuclide imaging

Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime

Tomography

X-Ray Computed

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