Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature

Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a rare complication and usually complicated with pneumonia or cerebrospinal fluid hydrothorax, which leads to diagnosis and early interventions. Very rarely patient remains asymptomatic. Here is a case report of a 6-year-old boy with a rare as...

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Autores principales: Saha, Hinglaj, Burman, Shib Shankar, Saha, Kaushik, Ghosh, Dipak
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6144609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271474
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_27_18
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author Saha, Hinglaj
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description Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a rare complication and usually complicated with pneumonia or cerebrospinal fluid hydrothorax, which leads to diagnosis and early interventions. Very rarely patient remains asymptomatic. Here is a case report of a 6-year-old boy with a rare asymptomatic intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
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spelling pubmed-61446092018-09-28 Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature Saha, Hinglaj Burman, Shib Shankar Saha, Kaushik Ghosh, Dipak J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt is a rare complication and usually complicated with pneumonia or cerebrospinal fluid hydrothorax, which leads to diagnosis and early interventions. Very rarely patient remains asymptomatic. Here is a case report of a 6-year-old boy with a rare asymptomatic intrathoracic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6144609/ /pubmed/30271474 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_27_18 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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Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature
title Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature
title_full Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature
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title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature
title_short Spontaneous Asymptomatic Migration of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt into Thoracic Cavity: A Case Report with Review of Literature
title_sort spontaneous asymptomatic migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt into thoracic cavity: a case report with review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6144609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271474
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JPN.JPN_27_18
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