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Spontaneous knot; a rare cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt blockage

Wail MohammedDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ulrikke WiigDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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John CairdDepartment of Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Pages 113-114 | Received 16 Jun 2010, Accepted 20 Oct 2010, Published online: 15 Dec 2010

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A. C Amato-Watkins, V. Mudigonda-Rao, J. Lang & P. Leach. (2011) Response to: Spontaneous knot; a rare cause of ventricularperitoneal blockage. British Journal of Neurosurgery 25:3, pages 437-438.
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Laquanda T. Knowlin, Makayla L. O'Guinn, Gabriel Devlin, Joo L. Song & Cathy E. Shin. (2024) Small Bowel Ischemia from Spontaneous Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Knot Formation in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report. Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports 100, pages 102752.
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Rinad M AlJoaid, Hawra H Alshakhori, Arwaa Haji, Dunya Alfaraj & Murad F Alabbad. (2023) Closed-Loop Bowel Obstruction Induced by Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Catheter Coiling at the Sigmoid Colon: A Case Report. Cureus.
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Orlando De Jesus & Christian Rios-Vicil. (2021) Ventriculoperitoneal shunt knotting causing bowel obstruction and necrosis in an adult patient. BMJ Case Reports 14:1, pages e239265.
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Kathryn Alana Joy, Benjamin Stephan Szewczyk, Matthew Armand Adamo & Mary Christina Whyte. (2020) Ischemic bowel secondary to ventriculoperitoneal shunt knotting: a surprisingly rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunting. Case report. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 25:5, pages 470-475.
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Idrees Sher, Shanu Gambhir, Sarah Pinto, Asim Mujic, Jens Peters-Willke & Andrew Hunn. (2017) Spontaneous peritoneal catheter knot formation: A rare cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 38, pages 67-68.
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Lee A. Tan, Manish K. Kasliwal, Roham Moftakhar & Lorenzo F. Munoz. (2014) Ventriculoperitoneal shunt with a rare twist: small-bowel ischemia and necrosis secondary to knotting of peritoneal catheter. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 14:3, pages 234-237.
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Matthew R. Amans & William P. Dillon. (2013) Cerebral parenchymal cyst: A rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction in an adult. Radiology Case Reports 8:1, pages 784.
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Anwar Ul-Haq, Faisal Al-Otaibi, Saud Alshanafey, Mohamed Diya Sabbagh & Essam Al Shail. (2013) Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Peritoneal Catheter Knot Formation. Case Reports in Neurological Medicine 2013, pages 1-4.
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