Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery

Ventricular shunts are commonly employed in the management of hydrocephalus, and numerous complications such as dissection or migration have been reported in the literature besides shunt malfunction. We present a case of the migration of the peritoneal catheter into the scrotum who attended at our i...

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Main Authors:	Agarwal, Tarun, Pandey, Sanjay, Niranjan, Ashutosh, Jain, Veenu, Mishra, Shashank, Agarwal, Vishal
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Medknow Publications 2009
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162779/

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spelling	pubmed-31627792011-09-01 Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery Agarwal, Tarun Pandey, Sanjay Niranjan, Ashutosh Jain, Veenu Mishra, Shashank Agarwal, Vishal Case Report Ventricular shunts are commonly employed in the management of hydrocephalus, and numerous complications such as dissection or migration have been reported in the literature besides shunt malfunction. We present a case of the migration of the peritoneal catheter into the scrotum who attended at our institute. He was managed successfully, but subsequently developed intraabdominal cystic swelling for which he was reoperated. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3162779/ /pubmed/21887195 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.57340 Text en © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Agarwal, Tarun Pandey, Sanjay Niranjan, Ashutosh Jain, Veenu Mishra, Shashank Agarwal, Vishal
spellingShingle	Agarwal, Tarun Pandey, Sanjay Niranjan, Ashutosh Jain, Veenu Mishra, Shashank Agarwal, Vishal Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
author_facet	Agarwal, Tarun Pandey, Sanjay Niranjan, Ashutosh Jain, Veenu Mishra, Shashank Agarwal, Vishal
author_sort	Agarwal, Tarun
title	Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
title_short	Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
title_full	Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
title_fullStr	Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
title_full_unstemmed	Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
title_sort	unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
description	Ventricular shunts are commonly employed in the management of hydrocephalus, and numerous complications such as dissection or migration have been reported in the literature besides shunt malfunction. We present a case of the migration of the peritoneal catheter into the scrotum who attended at our institute. He was managed successfully, but subsequently developed intraabdominal cystic swelling for which he was reoperated.
publisher	Medknow Publications
publishDate	2009
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3162779/
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Unusual complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery

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