Communicating hydrocephalus after endovascular coiling of unruptured aneurysms

Report of 2 cases

Alim P. Mitha M.D. 1 , John H. Wong M.D., M.Sc. 1 , 2 , Jian-Qiang Lu M.D., Ph.D. 3 , William F. Morrish M.D. 2 , Mark E. Hudon M.D. 2 and William Y. Hu M.D. 2
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  • 1 Divisions of Neurosurgery,
  • 2 Interventional Neuroradiology, and
  • 3 Neuropathology, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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https://doi.org/10.3171/JNS/2008/108/6/1241
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✓ To the authors' knowledge, only 1 case of communicating hydrocephalus after endovascular coiling of unruptured brain aneurysms has been reported previously. Here, they report on 2 such cases of delayed communicating hydrocephalus after treatment with hydrogel-coated coils and offer the first histopathological evidence of foreign material, presumably related to the coils, as the cause of hydrocephalus.

Abbreviations used in this paper: CSF = cerebrospinal fluid; MR = magnetic resonance; RBC = red blood cell; VP = ventriculo-peritoneal; WBC = white blood cell.

Volume 108: Issue 6 (Jun 2008)

in Journal of Neurosurgery
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Address correspondence to: John H. Wong, M.D., M.Sc., Division of Neurosurgery, 12th Floor Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403-29th Street N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 2T9, Canada. email: jwong@ucalgary.ca.
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