Colonic perforation due to ventricular-peritoneal shunt migration: A laparoscopic approach [4]

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-66

  Verbo, A ^a   Manno, A ^a   Mattana, C ^a   Pedretti, G ^a   Rizzo, G ^a   Coco, C ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; COLON PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 33646040702     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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