Anal Extrusion of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Report of Two Cases and Review of Literature

We report two cases of gastrointestinal perforation by ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts and review the literature on the topic. The time interval between shunt surgery and detection of bowel perforation is minimum in infants and increases with age. Sigmoid and transverse colon followed by stomach ar...

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Autores principales: Hasan, Abul, Sharma, Somnath, Chopra, Sanjeev, Purohit, Devendra Kumar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5982498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29899765
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_97_17
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spelling pubmed-59824982018-06-13 Anal Extrusion of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: A Report of Two Cases and Review of Literature Hasan, Abul Sharma, Somnath Chopra, Sanjeev Purohit, Devendra Kumar J Pediatr Neurosci Review Article We report two cases of gastrointestinal perforation by ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunts and review the literature on the topic. The time interval between shunt surgery and detection of bowel perforation is minimum in infants and increases with age. Sigmoid and transverse colon followed by stomach are the most frequent sites of gastrointestinal perforations by VP shunts. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5982498/ /pubmed/29899765 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_97_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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