[Treatment of occlusive hydrocephalus of nontumor origin by endoscopic means]

In 11 patients whose ages ranged from 3 months to 5 years occlusive hydrocephalus of nontumorous genesis was treated surgically with the use of endoscopy. Perforation of the floor of the third ventricle, lamina terminalis, and commissures of the fornices and bougienage of the cerebral aqueduct were carried out. One patients died in the postoperative period, in the other 10 patients the immediate result was good. The follow-up of the catamnesis of 9 patients showed that a stable positive effect was produced in 8 of them. The endoscopic method is simple, causes little trauma, and is sufficiently effective as a method of surgical treatment of hydrocephalus of nontumorous genesis in childhood neurosurgery.