Catheterization of the cerebral aqueduct for obstructive hydrocephalus in infants

✓ Thirty hydrocephalic children with obstruction of the cerebral aqueduct were treated by aqueductal catheterization (interventriculostomy). The complications encountered in the early cases have led to the use of a two-shunt technique. The surgical mortality of 13% compares favorably with that of other methods, and the possibility of a permanent cure of the hydrocephalus eliminating the problems of shunts and shunt dependence makes this approach an appealing one to the authors.