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hidrocefalia
Sign in to saveAlso known as hydrocephalus, X-linked, hydrocephalus, nonsyndromic, autosomal recessive, Meningoencephalocele
desorden en el sistema nervioso
Key facts
- Medical condition.image
- Hydrocephalus (cropped).jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- Hydrocephalus as seen on a CT scan of the brain. The black areas in the middle of the brain (the lateral ventricles) are abnormally large and filled with fluid.
- Medical condition.field
- neurosurgery
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Water on the brain
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Babies: rapid head growth, vomiting, sleepiness, seizuresOlder people: Headaches, double vision, poor balance, urinary incontinence, personality changes, mental impairment
- Medical condition.causes
- Neural tube defects, meningitis, brain tumors, traumatic brain injury, brain bleed during birth, intraventricular hemorrhage
- Medical condition.risks
- Smoking
- Medical condition.diagnosis
- Based on symptoms and medical imaging
- Medical condition.treatment
- Surgery
- Medical condition.prognosis
- Variable, often normal life
- Medical condition.frequency
- Varies throughout the world, from 1 per 256 live births to 1 per 9,000, depending on access to prenatal health care, prenatal tests, and abortion
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
43,217 papers- Infant Hydrocephalus.Pediatrics in review · 2024
- Hydrocephalus: historical analysis and considerations for treatment.European journal of medical research · 2022
- Noncommunicating Hydrocephalus.Seminars in ultrasound, CT, and MR · 2016
- Adult Hydrocephalus Clinical Subtypes.Neurosurgery clinics of North America · 2025
- Congenital Hydrocephalus.The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice · 2016
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Hydrocephalic skull.jpg
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- different from
- hypocephalus
- Commons category
- Hydrocephalus
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C3111
- health specialty
- neurology
- ICPC 2 ID
- N85
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000051
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
Sources (6)
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Article · Español
La hidrocefalia (término que deriva de las palabras griegas «hidro» que significa agua y «céfalo» que significa cabeza) es un trastorno cuya principal característica es la acumulación excesiva de líquido cefalorraquídeo dentro del cráneo. Esta se conocía antiguamente como "agua en el cerebro", aunque este líquido no es agua sino que es líquido cefalorraquídeo (LCR), un líquido transparente que rodea el cerebro y la médula espinal. La acumulación excesiva de líquido cefalorraquídeo tiene como consecuencia una dilatación anormal de los espacios en el cerebro llamados ventrículos. Esta dilatación ocasiona una presión potencialmente perjudicial en los tejidos del cerebro, generalmente el aumento del líquido en los ventrículos cerebrales es producido por la obstrucción de los conductos situados por debajo del cerebelo.
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