A Urological Complication of Lumbar Subarachnoid Shunt: Ureteral Obstruction by Extrinsic Compression

Michael J. Sullivan; Lynn H. Banowsky; L. Henry Lackner

doi:10.1001/archpedi.1972.02110120121018

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June 1972

A Urological Complication of Lumbar Subarachnoid Shunt: Ureteral Obstruction by Extrinsic Compression

Michael J. Sullivan, MD; Lynn H. Banowsky, MD; L. Henry Lackner, MD

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Albuquerque, NM

From the Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Sullivan is now with the University of California, Davis.

Am J Dis Child. 1972;123(6):597-598. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1972.02110120121018

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Lumbar subarachnoid-peritoneal shunts are used occasionally in the treatment of communicating hydrocephalus. A 5-year-old girl with meningomyelocele and communicating hydrocephalus developed unilateral ureteral obstruction secondary to extrinsic compression by a nonfunctioning shunt of this type. Progressive hydronephrosis was reversed by excision of the shunt and ureterolysis.

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