Migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt to urethral and rectal orifices

Osman, Banan, Roushias, Stella, Hargest, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9830-3832 and Narahari, Krishna 2017. Migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt to urethral and rectal orifices. BMJ Case Reports 2017 , 220187. 10.1136/bcr-2017-220187

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Abstract

Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery remains the most widely used neurosurgical procedure for the management of hydrocephalus. However, shunt complications are common and may require multiple surgical procedures during a patient’s lifetime. We report the case of a 29-year-old patient with a background of Dandy-Walker malformation, occipital encephalocele, recurrent hydrocephalus, spina bifida and epilepsy presented with VP shunt migration into urinary and gastrointestinal tracts. In absence of sepsis or peritonism from either bowel or bladder perforation, local control of stent extrusion was successful for several years, although surgery was eventually undertaken.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
ISSN:	1757-790X
Date of Acceptance:	29 October 2017
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 10:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107593

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