PEDIATRICS Vol. 24 No. 6 December 1959, pp. 1065-1068
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THE "FONTANOMETER"

Adaptation of the Schiotz Tonometer for the Determination of Intracranial Pressure in the Neonatal and Early Periods of Infancy

Leo M. Davidoff M.D.1 and Max Chamlin M.D.1

1 Departments of Neurological Surgery and Ophthalmology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and the Montefiore Hospital, New York City

The "fontanometer" is presented as an adaptation of the Schiotz tonometer to be used for estimating the relative state of intracranial pressure in the young infant. Its standardization and more exact value will be better understood only after a much larger series of eases has been studied, and comparisons are made with direct, simultaneous measurement of intraventricular pressures with a manometer. In the meantime, despite the fact that definite quantitative values cannot be ascribed to the readings at present, the instrument is offered as a simple clinical method of estimating intracranial pressure in the infant without resorting to ventricular on spinal puncture.

Submitted on May 1, 1959
Accepted on May 20, 1959