An Unusual Iatrogenic Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage from Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
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Received 11/30/2009; accepted 12/8/2009. For correspondence and reprints contact: Wan-Yu Lin, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. 160 Section 3, ChungGung Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail:[email protected] A case of renal insufficiency received Hickman catheter insertion for hemodialysis suffered from fever and continuous discharge after then. Local infection at the insertion site of the Hickman catheter was less favored due to the insertion site is absent in local redness, swelling or pus formation and the discharge is large in amount and clear in character. Taking his history into consideration, leakage of the ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt that inserted previously was suspected instead and the VP shunt patency scan proved it.
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