School ager with a ventriculoperitoneal shunt and a new headache

Neurological
Radiograph of broken ventriculoperitoneal shunt tubing
AP radiograph of the skull (left) shows a break in the VP shunt tubing just above the right orbit. AXR (right) shows the remaining VP shunt tubing coiled in the pelvis.

The diagnosis was ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction in the form of broken shunt tubing.

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