Department of Neurological Sciences, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Sapienza, University of Rome, 00161, Italy.
Brain. 2010 Jun;133(Pt 6):1836-49. doi: 10.1093/brain/awq014. Epub 2010 Feb 22.
Reports of idiopathic adult hydrocephalus prior to the 1965 description of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus by Salomón Hakim and Raymond Adams are lacking in the literature. Congenital paediatric and congenital adult hydrocephalus were considered to trace the early descriptions of idiopathic adult hydrocephalus. Through traditional or digital libraries and internet search engines, the historical sources dealing with idiopathic adult hydrocephalus were explored. The research shows that many distinguished physicians through the centuries have contributed to the discovery of idiopathic adult hydrocephalus. Early descriptions of the disorder were related to autopsy studies in the 18th and 19th centuries. From the second half of the 1800s, idiopathic adult hydrocephalus appeared to have been forgotten in the medical literature.
在 1965 年 Salomón Hakim 和 Raymond Adams 描述特发性正常压力脑积水之前，文献中缺乏特发性成人脑积水的报告。先天性儿科和先天性成人脑积水被认为是特发性成人脑积水的早期描述。通过传统或数字图书馆和互联网搜索引擎，探讨了与特发性成人脑积水有关的历史资料。研究表明，几个世纪以来，许多杰出的医生为发现特发性成人脑积水做出了贡献。该疾病的早期描述与 18 世纪和 19 世纪的尸检研究有关。从 19 世纪下半叶开始，特发性成人脑积水似乎在医学文献中被遗忘了。
