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Migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt into the chest. Case report
Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1978
Abstract:
A case is presented of a baby in whom the abdominal catheter of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt entered the thoracic cavity. It is believed that the catheter migrated along the xiphocostal margin beneath the rectus abdominis muscle.

