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Shunt-related brain abscess and ascending shunt infection
D J Gower1, D Horton, M Pollay
1Section on Neurological Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190.
Journal of Child Neurology
|October 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report the fifth case of shunt-related brain abscess. Two prior cases have been associated with colonic perforation and infection with gram-negative enteric organisms. These cases strongly suggest that ascending shunt infection is possible despite bulk cerebrospinal fluid flow in the opposite direction and add to our understanding of shunt infections.