title: Intracranial dislocation of a lumbo-peritoneal shunt-catheter: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: We report on the dislocation of the tip of a lumbo-peritoneal shunting catheter into the cerebral parenchyma 10 months after insertion. The progressive migration towards the deep structures of the brain, once the catheter had left the peritoneal cavity, might have been caused by CSF-flow. Such hypothesis is supported by modern MRI technology visualizing CSF-flow in a spino-cerebral direction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany.
authors.forename: E I
authors.initials: EI
authors.lastname: Anthogalidis
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Sure
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hellwig
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bertalanffy
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid; D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome