Retrieval of a Disconnected Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Catheter by Laparoscopy in a Newborn Child: Case Report

Overview

Journal Minim Invasive Neurosurg

Publisher Thieme

Specialties Gastroenterology
Neurosurgery

Date 1995 Sep 1

PMID 8542332

Citations 6

Authors

W Deinsberger

M Langhans

M Winking

D K Boker

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Abstract

In rare cases the peritoneal catheter of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt dislodges from the valve and the peritoneal tube migrates into the peritoneal cavity. For retrieval of the free intraperitoneal shunt, tube laparoscopy is the initial method of choice.

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