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Also known as hydrocephalus, X-linked, hydrocephalus, nonsyndromic, autosomal recessive, Meningoencephalocele
脳脊髄液が頭蓋腔内に貯まり、脳室が正常より大きくなる病気
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
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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 · 日本語
水頭症（すいとうしょう）とは、脳脊髄液の産生・循環・吸収などいずれかの異常により髄液が頭蓋腔内に貯まり、が正常より大きくなる病気である。脳脊髄液による脳の圧迫が、脳機能に影響を与える。おもに乳幼児に多くみられる。 脳水腫について「水頭症」は以前「脳水腫」と称されることが多かったが、「脳水腫」は別の意味に用いられる場合がある。新病理学各論 1975年版では、脳浮腫を「脳水腫(brain edema)」とする記載がみられ、このような混同を避けるためにも「水頭症」の用語が適切と考えられる。
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA