Intelligence Outcome in Shunted Hydrocephalus

Abstract

The intelligence outcome of 44 children, tested between 2 and 17 years, and having a shunted hydrocephalus without tumor and with normal ventricular size, was evaluated at the Departments of Child Neurology and Neurosurgery, Instituto Nazionale Neurologico, Milan, Italy.

Keywords

• shunted hydrocephalus
• antiepileptic therapy
• cerebral hemisphere malformations