Intracardiac Migration of a Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
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Intracardiac migration of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt.
CASE REPORT We report the case of a 56-year-old woman who developed hydrocephalus after surgical resection of a posterior fossa epidermoid cyst. A ventriculoperitoneal shunt was uneventfully placed, with tunnelling performed in a head-to-abdomen direction. The patient remained asymptomatic for ten months, after which she complained of persistent cough. Chest X-rays showed migration of the dista...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100015018