ِArticle topic: Hydrocephalus Author: Leen Mohammad AlHadidi Editor: Haneen A. Banihani, Haneen Al-Abdallat Final Reviewer: Zain Alsaddi Keywords: Hydrocephalus, Acquired Hydrocephalus, Communicating Hydrocephalus, Obstructive Hydrocephalus, Congenital Hydrocephalus, Neuroinflammation. Introduction “Hydro” and “Kephal” (which means “water on the brain”) as described by Hippocrates, Galen, and early and medieval Arabian physicians, were believed to have been caused by extracerebral accumulation of water.1 Hydrocephalus is an abnormal accumulation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within the cavities of the brain. This is often due to an imbalance in the dynamic of CSF production by choroid plexuses and reabsorption by arachnoid granulation. The […]
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