Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter protrusion through the anus

  • Letter to the Editor
  • Published:
Child's Nervous System Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Hai A, Rab AZ, Ghani I, Huda MF, Quadir AQ (2011) Perforation into gut by ventriculoperitoneal shunts: a report of two cases and review of the literature. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg 16:31–33

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Jindal A, Kansal S, Mahapatra AK (1999) Unusual complication—VP shunt coming out per rectum and brain abscess. Indian J Pediatr 66:463–465

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Sami A, Ait Ben Ali S, Choukry M, Achouri M, Naja A, Ouboukhlik A, Elkamar A, Elazhari A, Boucetta M (1995) Anal migration of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt catheter. Apropos of 3 cases. Neurochirurgie 41:315–318

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Sánchez Jarquín MR, Cordón R, Girón Romero R (1996) Prolapse of the ventriculoperitoneal shunt through the rectum. Cir Pediatr 9:122–124

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Schulhof LA, Worth RM, Kalsbeck JE (1975) Bowel perforation due to peritoneal shunt. A report of seven cases and a review of the literature. Surg Neurol 3:265–269

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Hornig GW, Shillito J Jr (1990) Intestinal perforation by peritoneal shunt tubing: report of two cases. Surg Neurol 33:288–290

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. de Aquino HB, Carelli EF, Borges Neto AG, Pereira CU (2006) Nonfunctional abdominal complications of the distal catheter on the treatment of hydrocephalus: an inflammatory hypothesis? Experience with six cases. Child Nerv Syst 22:1225–1230

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Ali J, Cheah FK (1987) Per rectal extrusion of a ventriculo peritoneal shunt catheter. A case report. Med J Malaysia 42:201–203

    PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Digray NC, Thappa DR, Arora M, Mengi Y, Goswamy HL (2000) Silent bowel perforation and transanal prolapse of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. Pediatr Surg Int 16:94–95

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Kanojia R, Sinha SK, Rawat J, Wakhlu A, Kureel S, Tandon R (2008) Unusual ventriculoperitoneal shunt extrusion: experience with 5 cases and review of the literature. Pediatr Neurosurg 44:49–51

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Chiang LL, Kuo MF, Fan PC, Hsu WM (2010) Transanal repair of colonic perforation due to ventriculoperitoneal shunt—case report and review of the literature. J Formos Med Assoc 109:472–475

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  12. Chen HS (2000) Rectal penetration by a disconnected ventriculoperitoneal shunt tube: an unusual complication. Chang Gung Med J 23:180–184

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Sathyanarayana S, Wylen EL, Baskaya MK, Nanda A (2000) Spontaneous bowel perforation after ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery: case report and a review of 45 cases. Surg Neurol 54:388–396

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Vuyyuru S, Ravuri SR, Tandra VR, Panigrahi MK (2009) Anal extrusion of a ventriculo peritoneal shunt tube: endoscopic removal. J Pediatr Neurosci 4:124–126

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  15. Jang HD, Kim MS, Lee NH, Kim SH (2007) Anal extrusion of distal V-P shunt catheter after double perforation of large intestine. J Korean Neurosurg Soc 42:232–234

    Google Scholar 

  16. Handa R, Kale R, Harjai MM (2007) Unusual complication of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt: anal extrusion. MJAFI 63:82–84

    Google Scholar 

  17. Akyuz M, Ucar T, Goksu E (2004) A thoracic complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt: symptomatic hydrothorax from intrathoracic migration of a ventriculo-peritoneal shunt catheter. Br J Neurosurg 18:171–173

    Article  PubMed  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Neurosurgery, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Room 720, 7th floor, CN center, Ansarinagar, New Delhi, 110029, India

    S. A. Borkar & A. K. Mahapatra

Authors
  1. S. A. Borkar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. K. Mahapatra
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to A. K. Mahapatra.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Borkar, S.A., Mahapatra, A.K. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter protrusion through the anus. Childs Nerv Syst 28, 341–342 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1684-1

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1684-1

Keywords

Search

Navigation