Letter to the Editor. The role of routine imaging for hydrocephalus surveillance

David S. Hersh MD1,2, Jonathan E. Martin MD1,2, and John C. Wellons III MD, MSPH3
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  • 1 Connecticut Children’s, Hartford, CT
  • | 2 UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
  • | 3 Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Online Publication Date:
04 Feb 2022
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596
Volume/Issue:
Volume 29: Issue 5
DOI link:
https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.12.PEDS21573
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Volume 29: Issue 5 (May 2022)

in Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Diagram from Behbahani et al. (pp 488–496).

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Contributor Notes

Correspondence David S. Hersh: dhersh@connecticutchildrens.org.

INCLUDE WHEN CITING Published online February 4, 2022; DOI: 10.3171/2021.12.PEDS21573.

Disclosures The authors report no conflict of interest.

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