Cranial Screw Migration along the Subdural Peritoneal Shunt Catheter in a Pediatric Patient
Open Access
- 7 August 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Scholar in Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
- Vol. 13 (03), 576-577
- https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1750705
Abstract
Craniotomy is a common surgery used to expose the brain by removing a part of the bone from the skull. During surgery, bone flaps can be fixed by using variety of materials that can migrate in the long term. A 7-year-old boy presented several years after the craniotomy and subdural peritoneal (SP) shunt surgeries. It was decided to remove the shunt catheter, and during the diagnostic tests, we saw that a loosened titanium screw has migrated along the SP shunt catheter from the skull into the abdominal wall. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case in the reported electronic literature for a pediatric patient with a subcutaneous migration of a screw along the shunt catheter. The authors followed the Declaration of Helsinki as a statement of ethical principles. B.B.A.: Conceptualization, writing, review, and editing. M.B.: Conceptualization, supervision, review, and editing. Article published online: 07 August 2022 © 2022. Association for Helping Neurosurgical Sick People. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. A-12, 2nd Floor, Sector 2, Noida-201301 UP, IndiaKeywords
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