Failure of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts: Part II: Overdrainage, Loculation, and Abdominal Complications

Overview

Journal Pediatr Neurol

Specialties Neurology
Pediatrics

Date 2006 Mar 1

PMID 16504785

Citations 56

Authors

Samuel R Browd

Oren N Gottfried

Brian T Ragel

John R W Kestle

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Abstract

Complications from cerebrospinal fluid shunts are common and can present with a variety of signs and symptoms. In this second part of a two-part review, shunt overdrainage, loculation of the ventricular system in patients with shunts, and abdominal complications related to ventriculoperitoneal shunts are discussed. Familiarity with these types of shunt failure is essential for neurologists and pediatricians because they are often the first to evaluate and triage these children.

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