Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery

Ventricular shunts are commonly employed in the management of hydrocephalus, and numerous complications such as dissection or migration have been reported in the literature besides shunt malfunction. We present a case of the migration of the peritoneal catheter into the scrotum who attended at our i...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Tarun, Pandey, Sanjay, Niranjan, Ashutosh, Jain, Veenu, Mishra, Shashank, Agarwal, Vishal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21887195
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.57340
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author Agarwal, Tarun
Pandey, Sanjay
Niranjan, Ashutosh
Jain, Veenu
Mishra, Shashank
Agarwal, Vishal
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description Ventricular shunts are commonly employed in the management of hydrocephalus, and numerous complications such as dissection or migration have been reported in the literature besides shunt malfunction. We present a case of the migration of the peritoneal catheter into the scrotum who attended at our institute. He was managed successfully, but subsequently developed intraabdominal cystic swelling for which he was reoperated.
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spelling pubmed-31627792011-09-01 Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery Agarwal, Tarun Pandey, Sanjay Niranjan, Ashutosh Jain, Veenu Mishra, Shashank Agarwal, Vishal J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Ventricular shunts are commonly employed in the management of hydrocephalus, and numerous complications such as dissection or migration have been reported in the literature besides shunt malfunction. We present a case of the migration of the peritoneal catheter into the scrotum who attended at our institute. He was managed successfully, but subsequently developed intraabdominal cystic swelling for which he was reoperated. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3162779/ /pubmed/21887195 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.57340 Text en © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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