Overshunting-Related Cervical Myelopathy Causing Progressive Gait Disturbance: A Case Report

A complication of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunting is overdrainage or overshunting of cerebrospinal fluid, which can cause formation of hygroma but in rare cases also cervical myelopathy at a later stage. In this article, we describe a very late complication of VP shunting. We present a 75-year-ol...

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Autores principales: Vister, Eva, Hammer, Sebastiaan, Keunen, Rudolf W.M., Rijssenbeek, Astrid L., van der Gaag, Niels A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2021
Materias:
Single Case − General Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34177538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000514551

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216007/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34177538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000514551

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