Bowel perforation complicating ventriculoperitoneal shunt: Case report and review

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 144-148

  Yousfi, Mahmoud M ^a   Jackson, Norman S ^a   Abbas, Maher ^a   Zimmerman, Richard S ^a   Fleischer, David E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; HYDROCEPHALUS; INSTRUMENTATION; RECTUM DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COLONOSCOPY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; RECTAL DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0642284503     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.324     Document Type: Article

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