Traumatic intratumoral hemorrhage secondary to a ventriculoperitoneal shunt

✍ Scribed by Felix Umansky; Yoram Kluger; John M. Gomori; Shlomo Constantini

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 528 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0256-7040
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00271932

✦ Synopsis

We report a case of a 14-month-old boy with a primary intraventricular oligodendroglioma and obstructive hydrocephalus. The child underwent a bilateral ventriculoperitoneal shunt and developed a massive and fatal intratumoral hemorrhage initiated by a mild trauma when introducing the left ventricular catheter. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the literature of such a complication during a shunting procedure for obstructive hydrocephalus of tumoral origin.