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Eight patients fulfilling the criteria for low pressure hydrocephalus as outlined by Hakim and Adams and their co-workers in 1965 and Bannister et al. (1967) were treated by C.S.F. diversion procedures. Operation in none of the cases led to improvement and most continued to deteriorate. It is suggested that the present methods of investigation do not differentiate between those patients with low pressure hydrocephalus who will benefit from operation and those who will not, and that further investigations are needed if some patients are not to be submitted to useless operation.
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Bannister, C.M. A report of eight patients with low pressure hydrocephalus treated by C.S.F. diversion with disappointing results. Acta neurochir 27, 11–15 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402168
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01402168