[Use of ventriculojugulostomy and lumbosaphenostomy for the treatment of hydrocephalus of various etiology].
Analysed were the results of treatment of 85 patients with hydrocephaly of different genesis: 12 (14.1%) patients--occlusive, 73 (85.9%)--communicating hydrocephaly, including 31 (36.4%)--with normal cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Ventriculojugulostomy was performed in 55 patients, lumbosaphenostomy--in 30. Stabilization of hydrocephaly was achieved in 89.4% of the patients at the near postoperative period, in 81.5%--at the period of up to 17 years after the operation. Shunt revision was performed in 19 (22.3%) patients.