- Etiology: placed in patients who require long-term decompression of hydrocephalus
- Imaging: superior catheter tip should be intraventricular in location, inferior catheter tip should be freely floating within the peritoneum, normal to see small amount of free fluid in pelvis, ventricles should not be dilated
- Complications: shunt broken or discontinuous or kinked or occluded, shunt tip migration out of ventricle, shunt tip intraparenchymal, shunt infection, over-shunting (slit-like ventricles), CSFoma
- Treatment: shunt replacement except in cases of shunt infection which require temporary shunt diversion before shunt replacement
- Clinical: presents with headaches / sommulence / irritability, shunt infection presents with fever, CSFoma presents with abdominal mass
Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Malfunction / Malposition / Misposition / Misplacement
Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Broken

Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Discontinuity


Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Kinked

Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Tip Migration Out of Ventricle

Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Tip Migration Into Scrotum

Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Tip Intraparenchymal

Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Occluded

Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Infected


Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt CSFoma


Radiology Cases of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Overshunting
