Letter to the Editor. Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: is 1-year follow-up enough?

Fabio TorregrossaUniversity of Palermo, Italy

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Giovanni GrassoUniversity of Palermo, Italy

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Publication Date:
01 Jul 2022
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1566–1567
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Volume 137: Issue 5
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.4.JNS22874
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Volume 137: Issue 5 (Nov 2022)

in Journal of Neurosurgery

Illustration from Xu et al. (pp 1418–1430). With permission from Juan Carlos Fernandez-Miranda and The Neurosurgical Atlas by Aaron Cohen-Gadol.

Contributor Notes

Correspondence Giovanni Grasso: giovanni.grasso@unipa.it.

INCLUDE WHEN CITING Published online July 1, 2022; DOI: 10.3171/2022.4.JNS22874.

Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest.

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    Grasso G, Torregrossa F, Leone L, Frisella A, Landi A. Long-term efficacy of shunt therapy in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. World Neurosurg. 2019;129:e458–e463.

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    Grasso G, Torregrossa F, Leone L, Frisella A, Landi A. Long-term efficacy of shunt therapy in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. World Neurosurg. 2019;129:e458–e463.

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