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Footballs and the principle of intracranial compliance
1Neurosurgical Department, University Hospital Münster, Fed. Rep. of Germany.
Neurosurgical Review
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
An easy to illustrate relationship between intracranial volume and intracranial pressure is proposed: Between the bubble and the leather of a slitted football an usual epidural pressure probe is introduced. By successively inflating the ball with a pump, the exponential increment of pressure can be demonstrated.