Intracranial dislocation of a lumbo-peritoneal shunt-catheter: case report and review of the literature

Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 1999 Sep;101(3):203-6. doi: 10.1016/s0303-8467(99)00036-0.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain / pathology*
  • Brain / surgery*
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / adverse effects*
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid*
  • Female
  • Foreign-Body Migration*
  • Humans
  • Hydrocephalus / surgery
  • Middle Aged
  • Reoperation
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome