Dementia: Surgery
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Surgery
In rare cases, surgery may be used to remove a brain tumor or to treat normal-pressure hydrocephalus, both of which can cause dementia. Other causes of dementias cannot be treated with surgery.
| Last updated: | June 27, 2007 |
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| Author: | Jeannette Curtis |
| Reviewed By: | Martin Gabica, MD - Family Medicine, Peter J. Whitehouse, MD - Neurology |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Denele Ivins |
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