Ventriculostomy

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Intervention: Ventriculostomy
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ICD-9 code:	02.2
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Ventriculostomy is a neurological surgical procedure. It is done by surgically placing a tube through the skull such that it terminates in the ventricle of the brain. Ventriculostomy is done primarily to monitor the intracranial pressure as well as to drain CSF (primarily) or blood to relieve pressure from the CNS.

The first useful procedure for ventriculostomy was developed by the Norwegian doctor Arne Torkildsen.

v • d • e Surgery, Nervous system: neurosurgical procedures (ICD-9-CM V3 01-05) Skull, brain, and cerebral meninges Craniotomy - Decompressive craniectomy - Lobotomy - Hemispherectomy - Ventriculostomy - Anterior temporal lobectomy Spinal cord and spinal canal Spinal cord and roots (Cordotomy - Rhizotomy) Intervertebral discs (Discectomy - Intervertebral disc annuloplasty - Intervertebral disc arthroplasty) Vertebral bones (Laminotomy - Laminectomy - Laminoplasty - Corpectomy - Facetectomy - Foraminotomy - Vertebral fusion - Vertebral fixation) Lumbar puncture Cranial and peripheral nerves Ganglionectomy - Nerve block Sympathetic nerves or ganglia Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy Other Axotomy - Hypophysectomy - Vagotomy