title: Unusual complication of peritoneal drainage: migration of a shunt in the subdural space.
abstract: Quite a number of cases of upward shunt migration have already been reported in the literature. The authors report the case of a newborn boy who presented a sequential alternate change of pressure gradients based, according to their opinion, on fields of pressures exerted by fluids in different compartments of the patient's body. The authors propose a physicoanatomical explanation on the basis of the surgical findings.
authors.affiliation: Unité de Neurochirurgie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Thauvoy
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kallel
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Marion
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Scholtès
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stroobandt
mesh_terms: D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008578:Meninges; D010537:Peritoneum; D012086:Reoperation; D012611:Scrotum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013355:Subdural Space; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed