A rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: Pleural effusion without intrathoracic ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter

BACKGROUND: Symptomatic pleural effusion following ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) insertion is very rare and poorly understood in the literature in contrary to other mechanical complications. CASE DESCRIPTION: We report a case of 15 month-year-old girl who had VP shunt for congenital hydrocephalus...

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Autores principales: Hilmani, Said, Mesbahi, Tarek, Bouaggad, Abderrahman, Lakhdar, Abdelhakim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7568093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33093968
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_57_2020

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