Gastrointestinal cancer surgery in patients with a prior ventriculoperitoneal shunt: the department of veterans affairs experience.

CONCLUSION: We believe this is the first report analyzing the clinical course of adults with VP shunts who later had major abdominal cancer surgery. The presence of a shunt was associated with dense adhesions in 1 (14%) of the 7 patients in this series, but not with an increased risk of postoperative complications. PMID: 23077686 [PubMed]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23077686?dopt=Abstract

Source: Gastrointestinal Cancer Research - June 4, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Gastrointest Cancer Res Source Type: research