Unusual complication of peritoneal drainage: migration of a shunt in the subdural space.
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.
Thauvoy
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Unité de Neurochirurgie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Kallel
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Marion
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Scholtès
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Stroobandt
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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