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In Normal and Hydrocephalic Dogs

KENNETH SHULMAN, MD; PHILIP YARNELL, MD; JOSEPH RANSOHOFF, MD

Arch Neurol. 1964;10(6):575-580.

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Introduction

A series of experiments in dogs have been undertaken to define the relationship of intracranial venous pressure as measured in the membranous and bony superior sagittal sinus to cerebrospinal fluid pressure. Previous workers^1,2 have shown that cerebrospinal fluid pressure is normally greater than that within the sagittal sinus, and in addition that acute elevations of cerebrospinal fluid pressure are not followed by an increased pressure in the sinus.⁹ Such data implies that there normally exists a gradient of pressure encouraging the transport of fluid from cerebrospinal fluid to sinus and also demonstrates the "venting" action of the venous sinus system in damping and compensating for acute changes in cerebrospinal fluid pressure, by acting as a low pressure runoff for the subarachnoid veins. Hydrocephalus represents a state of chronically elevated cerebrospinal fluid pressure and permits study of cerebrospinal fluid dural venous pressure relationships under such a condition.

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Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Department of Neurological Surgery, New York University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug 23, 1963; accepted Feb 7, 1964.

Present address: Department of Surgery, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY (Dr. Yarnell).

This investigation was supported in part by the Public Health Service Research grant No. 03900-02 from the National Institutes of Neurological Diseases and Blindness and in part by the Association for the Aid to Crippled Children, New York.

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