Differential Diagnosis of Cyclic Vomiting and Periodic Headaches in a Child with Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt: Case Report of Chronic Shunt Overdrainage
Fourteen months after the implantation of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter, a six-year-old boy developed recurrent, severe headaches and vomiting every three weeks. The attacks were of such severity that hospitalizations for analgesic and antiemetic therapies and intravenous rehydration and ele...
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Main Authors: | Maximilian David Mauritz (Author), Carola Hasan (Author), Lutz Schreiber (Author), Andreas Wegener-Panzer (Author), Sylvia Barth (Author), Boris Zernikow (Author) |
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2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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