Spontaneous bowel perforation complicating ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement is an effective treatment of hydrocephalus diverting the cerebrospinal fluid into the peritoneal cavity. Unfortunately, the shunt devices have a high incidence of malfunction mainly due to catheter obstruction or infection and are associated with various complica...

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Autores principales: Birbilis, Theodosios, Zezos, Petros, Liratzopoulos, Nikolaos, Oikonomou, Anastasia, Karanikas, Michael, Kontogianidis, Kosmas, Kouklakis, Georgios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918409
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8251

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918409
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8251

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