Ultrasonographic demonstration of patency of subarachnoid-orbital shunt.
Contact B scan photographs of a patent surgically created subarachnoid-orbital shunt are presented. Clinical evidence of cessation of shunt function corresponded with disappearance of demonstrable fluid drainage by ultrasonography.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery*; D010211:Papilledema / Q000601:surgery*; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000601:surgery*; D013346:Subarachnoid Space / Q000601:surgery*; D014463:Ultrasonography