ArticleJournal of neurosurgery. Case lessons2024
Early postoperative lumbar catheter severing in a lumboperitoneal shunt due to bite-off by the spinous processes following a fall on the buttocks: illustrative case.
Article in Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundRupture of the lumbar catheter in lumboperitoneal (LP) shunts is rare and typically occurs due to long-term mechanical stress. The authors describe an unusual case of early postoperative lumbar catheter severing after a fall on the buttocks. OBSERVATIONS: A 78-year-old woman underwent LP shunt placement for communicating hydrocephalus after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. The lumbar catheter was inserted via a median approach, and the postoperative course was uneventful. However, 2 months after the LP shunt surgery, she accidentally fell on her buttocks in the hospital ward. Radiography showed a rupture of the lumbar catheter due to the shearing force caused by compression of the spinous processes from the impact of the fall. LESSONS: In patients who have undergone catheter placement via a median approach, even within a short period after LP shunt placement, the lumbar catheter that has deteriorated due to "pinch-off" can rupture due to "bite-off" by the spinous processes following a fall on the buttocks. https://thejns.org/doi/10.3171/CASE24509.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.