Experimental hydrocephalus
Experimental hydrocephalus
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DOI:
10.1097/00000658-191908000-00001
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发表时间:
1919-07-01
影响因子:
9
通讯作者:
Dandy, WE
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作者:
Dandy, WE
THE production of all types of hydrocephalus by precise experimental methods finally lifts the idiopathic veil and reveals hydrocephalus as a dis-ease with a clearly defined etiology and pathology. The first evidence that hydrocephalus could be experimentally produced was incorporated in an article with Blackfan in 19I3. 1 It was demonstrated that when a tiny obstructing body was introduced into the aqueduct of Sylvius of a dog, all the cerebral ventricles proximal to the occlusion became dilated; distally, the size of the-fourth ventricle was not changed. The following year, Thomas 2 published additional experimental evidence that hydrocephalus was caused by obstruction. Following the injection of aleuronat granules into the lateral ventricles, the iter became plugged; organization of the granules resulted in total occlusion of the opening. and hydro-cephalus followed.As early as the middle of the eighteenth century, Haller, Brunner and Littre looked upon an obstruction to the outflow of the ventricular contents through the pituitary body as the cause of hydrocephalus. Such a theory of obstruction can only be regarded as fanciful, since vapor and not fluid was at that time regarded as the normal content of the ventricles; the pituitary body was erroneously regarded as the main avenue of escape for the vapor inthe ventricles.