Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt can be transdiaphragmatic or supradiaphragmatic. This complication causes important respiratory symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: A 7 year-old Caucasian female, hospitalized with the prediagnosis of pneumonia, was determined to have vent...

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Autores principales: Karapolat, S, Onen, A, Sanli, A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2490671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18637179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-42
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description INTRODUCTION: Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt can be transdiaphragmatic or supradiaphragmatic. This complication causes important respiratory symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: A 7 year-old Caucasian female, hospitalized with the prediagnosis of pneumonia, was determined to have ventriculoperitoneal shunt migration at left hemithorax. A left thoracotomy was performed and the shunt was successfully removed transdiaphragmatically. CONCLUSION: The patients with intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt must be treated surgically as soon as possible. Transdiaphragmatic surgical approach would be more suitable from the point of surgical easiness.
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spelling pubmed-24906712008-07-30 Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report Karapolat, S Onen, A Sanli, A Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt can be transdiaphragmatic or supradiaphragmatic. This complication causes important respiratory symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: A 7 year-old Caucasian female, hospitalized with the prediagnosis of pneumonia, was determined to have ventriculoperitoneal shunt migration at left hemithorax. A left thoracotomy was performed and the shunt was successfully removed transdiaphragmatically. CONCLUSION: The patients with intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt must be treated surgically as soon as possible. Transdiaphragmatic surgical approach would be more suitable from the point of surgical easiness. BioMed Central 2008-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2490671/ /pubmed/18637179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-42 Text en Copyright © 2008 Karapolat et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
title Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
title_full Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
title_fullStr Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
title_short Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
title_sort intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2490671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18637179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-42
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