A 5-Month-Old Infant with Right Scrotum Swelling; a Case Report

Migration of the distal catheters of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is a rare event. Here, we report an unusual case of a 5-month-old infant with post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus, who developed right scrotum swelling soon after VP shunting. Plain abdominal x-ray showed the shunt tubing, which was twi...

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Autores principales: Hung, Shih-Wen, Chen, Kuo-Chih, Wu, Chin-Chu, Wang, Tzong-Luen, Chor-Ming Lin, Aming
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Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28286855
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author Hung, Shih-Wen
Chen, Kuo-Chih
Wu, Chin-Chu
Wang, Tzong-Luen
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description Migration of the distal catheters of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is a rare event. Here, we report an unusual case of a 5-month-old infant with post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus, who developed right scrotum swelling soon after VP shunting. Plain abdominal x-ray showed the shunt tubing, which was twisted and kinked in its distal portion and coiled in the right scrotum. The infant was operated on and managed with successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-53259192017-03-10 A 5-Month-Old Infant with Right Scrotum Swelling; a Case Report Hung, Shih-Wen Chen, Kuo-Chih Wu, Chin-Chu Wang, Tzong-Luen Chor-Ming Lin, Aming Emerg (Tehran) Case Report Migration of the distal catheters of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt is a rare event. Here, we report an unusual case of a 5-month-old infant with post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus, who developed right scrotum swelling soon after VP shunting. Plain abdominal x-ray showed the shunt tubing, which was twisted and kinked in its distal portion and coiled in the right scrotum. The infant was operated on and managed with successful outcome. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2017 2017-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5325919/ /pubmed/28286855 Text en © Copyright (2017) Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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