A long-term complication of burying a sh
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Ahmed Ammar; Munir Nasser
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Article
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1995
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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One of the most common causes of shunt malfunction is infection; a major contributing factor to this infection in neonates is scalp necrosis over the valve site. One of the methods recommended to avoid this requires the burying of the valve in the skull bone. We present a case of a long-term complic