The Scanty Knowledge of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy in Infants.

Introduction: Hydrocephalus (HCP) remains one of the commonest pathologies treated in developing countries. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) has become the alternative to shunt-divergen procedures in the treatment of many pathologies of the cerebral fluid in the brain. Age has been considered a limitation to perform the procedure, we started to perform ETV In younger patients earlier than many other units.