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Oct 2026
Clinical experience with ventriculovesical shunting as a salvage or bridging strategy in children with hydrocephalus when peritoneal diversion was considered unsuitable: a retrospective case series
Objective Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunting remains a standard cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion procedure for pediatric hydrocephalus. However, peritoneal diversion may be considered unsuitable in selected children because of abdominal infection, severe peritoneal pathology, refractory CSF ascites, or persistent CS...
Li-Xue Shen, Yang-Xu Gao, Yu Li et al.
· Frontiers in Pediatrics · 0 citations