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M16. Hx of fourth ventricular rosette-forming glioneuronal tumour debulked 7 years ago. Shunt dependent (initially had ETV which failed, multiple revisions of VPS, the last 3w ago). Re-presented with increasingly tense sub-occipital wound pseudomeningocoele and csf leak from shunt site, o/e GCS E3 V4 M6, disorientated and drowsy, apyrexial and not meningitic, no other FND
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- CSF:
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Cerebrospinal fluid
- CTH:
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Computed tomography head
- ETV:
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
- FND:
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Focal neurological deficit
- VPS:
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Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt
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Tolias, C.M., Giamouriadis, A., Hogg, F.R.A., Ghimire, P. (2019). Blocked Shunt. In: Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98234-2_28
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