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Treatment of recurrent, multiloculated, obstructive hydrocephalus with suprahepatic peritoneal catheter placement
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Treatment of recurrent, multiloculated, obstructive hydrocephalus with suprahepatic peritoneal catheter placement

Nathan C. Rowland, Michael C. Huang, Michael T. Lawton, Jonathan Carter, John Maa and Michael W. McDermott
Journal of clinical neuroscience, Vol.20(7), pp.1038-1039
07/01/2013
PMID: 23618678

Abstract

Endoscopic third ventriculostomy Non-communicating hydrocephalus Programmable shunt valve
The suprahepatic space represents a potential reservoir for cerebrospinal fluid absorption and becomes critical when extensive abdominal adhesions prevent passage of a peritoneal shunt catheter toward the pelvis. We present a patient with refractory hydrocephalus in which a multishunt system with drainage into the suprahepatic space was ultimately successful in decompressing the patient’s trapped ventricular spaces.

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