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This is the first study to quantify the patient demographics and cost of hydrocephalus shunt-related admissions across the entire age spectrum. Shunt-related admissions cost the US more than 2. 06 billion dollars per year and represent only a fraction of the total cost of hydrocephalus care.
Koschnitzky et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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