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Rare ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication: Sigmoid colon perforation and anal extrusion
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Rare ventriculoperitoneal shunt complication: Sigmoid colon perforation and anal extrusion

Hussam S. Hassan, Hisham A. Almetaher, Essam Elhalaby, Ahmed Nofal and Hany Abdel Fattah Elhady
MEDICAL SCIENCE, Vol.27(131)
01/01/2023

Abstract

Life Sciences & Biomedicine Medicine, Research & Experimental Research & Experimental Medicine Science & Technology
The installation of a ventricular-peritoneal (VP) shunt is a very commonly utilized surgical treatment for hydrocephalus. The literature has described the caudal end of a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt migrating to a variety of locations and with migration, shunt function may be reduced. This is a report on one of the rarest complications of VP shunts: Perforation of the sigmoid colon and anal extrusion.

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