Ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications: A three-year retrospective study in a Kenyan national teaching and referral hospital

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-5

  Mwachaka, Philip M ^a,b   Obonyo, Nchafatso G ^a   Mutiso, Ben K ^a   Ranketi, Simeon ^a   Mwang'Ombe, Nimrod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b NONE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Complications; Risk factors; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSTRUCTION; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SHUNT INFECTION; SURGICAL WARD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICE FAILURE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HYDROCEPHALUS; KENYA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARACHNOID CYSTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 77951959261     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000314050     Document Type: Article

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