[Long-term surgical outcome and complications of treatment of non-neoplastic hydrocephalus in childhood. Considerations and our experience].

The AA., emphasized the surgical improvement in the treatment of non neoplastic hydrocephalus, relate their experience relative to last 16 years dwelling upon a surgical results at a distance and a founded complications too. After a discussion about the not solved problems in the treatment of this pathology, they conclude asserting that in addition to the shunt's application, it is absolutely necessary to verify, by means of post-surgical controls, that intracranial pressure is as much as possible near to the normality, to assure not only the patient's life but her quality too.