Posterior fossa decompression for children with Chiari I malformation and hydrocephalus.
J KoueikR L DeSantiBermans J IskandarPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2021)
In patients with both CMI and hydrocephalus, treating the CMI first in an effort to avoid a shunt can be safe and effective. In this series, PFDD in the setting of hydrocephalus did not result in CSF leak or pseudomeningocele. While limited by a small sample size, these data support a causative relationship between CMI and hydrocephalus.