Ventriculo-peritoneal shunts (VPS) are the most frequent operative procedures used to treat hydrocephalic children. Abdominal complications of VPS are now a rare event; however, their frequency varies from 5% to 47% according to reports. Anything that causes an obstruction or impediment of the VP derivation system will lead to intracranial hypertension, which requires immediate surgery. From 1985 to 1995 at the Division of Pediatric Surgery of the Federico II University of Naples, ten laparoscopies were performed in ten children with VPS complications. Cerebrospinal fluid pseudocysts were found in four infants. There was one case of abdominal wall perforation by the tip of the catheter at the umbilical level, two bowel obstructions, and one catheter was lost in the abdominal cavity. Finally, two children had malfunctioning of the peritoneal limb of the catheter. The laparoscopic technique was curative in all ten cases, thus avoiding a conventional laparotomy and the consequent risk of adhesions, which could cause further complications.

The use of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts in children / Esposito, Ciro; Porreca, A; Gangemi, Michelangelo; Garipoli, V; De Pasquale, M.. - In: PEDIATRIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL. - ISSN 0179-0358. - ELETTRONICO. - 14:(1998), pp. 352-354.

The use of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts in children

ESPOSITO, CIRO;GANGEMI, MICHELANGELO;
1998

Abstract

Ventriculo-peritoneal shunts (VPS) are the most frequent operative procedures used to treat hydrocephalic children. Abdominal complications of VPS are now a rare event; however, their frequency varies from 5% to 47% according to reports. Anything that causes an obstruction or impediment of the VP derivation system will lead to intracranial hypertension, which requires immediate surgery. From 1985 to 1995 at the Division of Pediatric Surgery of the Federico II University of Naples, ten laparoscopies were performed in ten children with VPS complications. Cerebrospinal fluid pseudocysts were found in four infants. There was one case of abdominal wall perforation by the tip of the catheter at the umbilical level, two bowel obstructions, and one catheter was lost in the abdominal cavity. Finally, two children had malfunctioning of the peritoneal limb of the catheter. The laparoscopic technique was curative in all ten cases, thus avoiding a conventional laparotomy and the consequent risk of adhesions, which could cause further complications.
1998
The use of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of abdominal complications of ventriculo-peritoneal shunts in children / Esposito, Ciro; Porreca, A; Gangemi, Michelangelo; Garipoli, V; De Pasquale, M.. - In: PEDIATRIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL. - ISSN 0179-0358. - ELETTRONICO. - 14:(1998), pp. 352-354.
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