Silicone spaghetti.
Migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheters, although infrequent, is well reported. We report the unusual event of a patient who, after having had three shunt revisions over a 15-year period, presented with a per-oral extrusion of her original distal catheter.
Sinnadurai
Manohan
M
Neurosurgery, St Vincent's Hospital, 406 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales 2010, Australia. msinnadu@med.usyd.edu.au
Winder
Mark J
MJ
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000601:surgery; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D012828:Silicones / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017287:Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt / Q000009:adverse effects*
D012828:Silicones