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English
Etymology
International scientific vocabulary, using a classical compound: ventriculo- + cistern + -al.
Adjective
ventriculocisternal (not comparable)
- (anatomy, medicine, surgery) Of or pertaining to a ventricle and a cistern, usually one of the cerebral ventricles and one of the subarachnoid cisterns (such as the fourth ventricle and the cisterna magna), regarding pathways of cerebrospinal fluid flow.
ventriculocisternal shunts
ventriculocisternal drainage
2016, Per Kristian Eide, Tryggve Lundar, “Arne Torkildsen and the ventriculocisternal shunt: the first clinically successful shunt for hydrocephalus”, in Journal of Neurosurgery, volume 124, number 5, →DOI, pages 1421–1428:Arne Torkildsen was a pioneering Norwegian neurosurgeon who introduced the ventriculocisternal shunt, the first clinically successful shunt for CSF diversion in hydrocephalus. The procedure, usually referred to as ventriculocisternostomy (VCS), Torkildsen's operation, or Torkildsen's shunt, became internationally recognized as an efficient operation for the treatment of noncommunicating hydrocephalus. The operation gained widespread use in the 1940s and 1950s before the introduction of extracranial shunts. In this paper, the authors look more closely at Torkildsen's development of the VCS and examine how this surgical approach differed from other procedures for treating hydrocephalus before World War II.