ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2026
Laparoscopic low anterior resection in a patient with ventriculoperitoneal shunt: a case report.
Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2026. 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
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Hydrocephalus is commonly managed with a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt, and the safety of laparoscopic surgery in these patients remains debated due to concerns regarding shunt malfunction and altered intracranial pressure. Evidence is mostly pediatric, with limited adult data. We report a case of laparoscopic low anterior resection (LAR) in an adult with a VP shunt. A 70-year-old man with a VP shunt placed 10 years prior was diagnosed with a well-differentiated rectosigmoid adenocarcinoma without metastasis. He underwent laparoscopic LAR using low insufflation pressure and intermittent desufflation. The shunt was left unclamped. The procedure was uneventful, and he was discharged on postoperative Day 4 with no neurological or surgical complications. Although historically considered high-risk, current evidence suggests that laparoscopic surgery can be safely performed in patients with VP shunts when careful perioperative measures are taken. Laparoscopic colon resection appears safe in selected VP shunt patients when appropriate precautions are implemented.
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.