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Hydrocephalus

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Pediatric Neurosurgery

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In his work, the seats and causes of diseases investigated by anatomy, G.B. Morgagni, in 1761, called attention to the fact that the earlier investigators of increased craniocerebral size did not have particularly clear ideas as to where beneath the skin the fluid present in hydrocephalus was located (Morgagni, cited in [1]). Specifically, pathologist, anatomist, and clinical pathologist were dubious as to whether the fluid was located beneath the skin, beneath the skull, beneath the dura, or within the brain itself. By and large, it is safe to assume that the anatomists and physicians prior to Vesalius were of the mind that the fluid accumulated beneath the scalp. Indeed, Vesalius [2] was apparently the first to give a clear description of internal hydrocephalus by stating

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Raimondi, A.J. (1998). Hydrocephalus. In: Pediatric Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58827-3_15

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