Abdominal complications from peritoneal shunts
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Peritoneal bypass in the treatment of hydrocephalus: historical review and abdominal complications.
The development of intraperitoneal shunting systems is presented chronologically and a review is made of the wide variety of intraperitoneal complications which have occured to date.
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عنوان ژورنال: Gastroenterology
سال: 1979
ISSN: 0016-5085
DOI: 10.1016/0016-5085(79)90288-9