IMAGES: VENTRICULAR CATHETER MISPLACEMENT
Abstract
Misplacement of a ventricular catheter into brain parenchyma, the choroid plexus, or the temporal horn leads to early shunt failure. Patients usually have postoperative evidence of raised intracranial pressure or fluid around the shunt, or both. Rarely, a misplaced shunt will be identified incidentally on follow-up imaging.
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