A thoracic complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: Symptomatic hydrothorax from intrathoracic migration of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-173

  Akyuz M ^a   Ucar T ^a   Goksu E ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid shunt; Hydrocephalus; Hydrothorax

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDROTHORAX; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SHUNTING; TACHYPNEA; THORACOCENTESIS;

CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDROTHORAX; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 2542427771     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690410001681046     Document Type: Review

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