Ventricular puncture

A ventricular puncture is the puncture of one of the two lateral cerebral ventricles . It is a surgical procedure that is usually carried out by neurosurgeons . Nowadays it is only rarely performed diagnostically as a form of CSF extraction and the detection of cancer cells in it. In the past, pneumoencephalography (ventriculography) also used ventricular puncture to inject air into the cerebral ventricles. Ventricular puncture is mainly performed in neurosurgery for therapeutic purposes. B. to achieve a short-term relief of the intracranial pressure during space-occupying processes in the brain ( craniocerebral trauma , tumors , closure of the liquor-draining ducts, etc.)

See also

• Ommaya Reservoir

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe K. Zettl: Clinical Liquordiagnostik. Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-110-18169-2 , p. 28 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ^ Andreas Hirner: Surgery. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-131-51322-9 , p. 126 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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