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Misleading clinical syndromes of CSF shunt malfunction
1Department of Surgical Neurology, Morriston Hospital, West Glamorgan, United Kingdom.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
CSF shunt malfunction is nowadays a common emergency. It may occasionally simulate some more sinister underlying central nervous system disease. We describe three examples where simple mechanical revision of a faulty shunt reversed bizarre and misleading neurological syndromes.