Open AccessHydrocephalus owing to ventriculoperitoneal shunt dysfunction
Author(s) -
Yamaguchi Toshimasa
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of general and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2189-7948
DOI - 10.1002/jgf2.525
Subject(s) - medicine , chest radiograph , surgery , hydrocephalus , vomiting , nausea , glasgow coma scale , anesthesia , neurological examination , abdominal pain , shunt (medical) , catheter , radiography
A 43‐year‐old woman presented to our hospital with headache accompanied with nausea and intermittent vomiting without abdominal pain. The patient had undergone ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement for hydrocephalus owing to quadrigeminal cistern arachnoid cyst. Cranial computed tomography demonstrated enlarged bilateral ventricles, and the abdominal radiograph demonstrated a reverse U‐shaped catheter that seemed to have been fractured in the left peritoneal cavity.