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Ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure from spontaneous knotting of the peritoneal catheter
- Source :
- Canadian Medical Association Journal. 188:E97-E97
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- CMA Joule Inc., 2015.
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Abstract
- A 15-month-old girl with hydrocephalus from an intraventricular hemorrhage presented to the emergency department with irritability, lethargy and vomiting. Our neurosurgery team had inserted a ventriculoperitoneal shunt 10 months earlier. Computed tomography of the patient’s brain showed enlarged
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Irritability
Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt
03 medical and health sciences
Lethargy
Catheters, Indwelling
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Practice
business.industry
Infant
General Medicine
Emergency department
medicine.disease
Hydrocephalus
Shunt (medical)
Surgery
Intraventricular hemorrhage
Vomiting
Equipment Failure
Female
Neurosurgery
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14882329 and 08203946
- Volume :
- 188
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....44e73599764a8921b3f42355f3529d9a