Lumboperitoneal shunt: A rare cause of Brown-Sequard Syndrome
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Intracerebral hematoma following lumboperitoneal shunt insertion: a rare case report.
Lumboperitoneal shunting is widely used for the surgical management of pseudotumor cerebri and other pathologies such as communicating hydrocephalus. Although it is a safe method, it could be associated with complications including subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural and rarely intracerebral hematoma. A 44-year-old female applied to our clinic with complaints of severe headache, retroorbital pain...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0003-9993
DOI: 10.1016/0003-9993(94)90889-3