Hyponatremia seizure due to huge abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocsyt in a child with ventriculoperitoneal shunt: A case report

BÜYÜKYAVUZ B. İ., DUMAN L., KARAASLAN T., TÜREDİ YILDIRIM A.

Turkish Neurosurgery, cilt.22, sa.5, ss.656-658, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 22 Sayı: 5
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.5137/1019-5149.jtn.3978-10.1
  • Dergi Adı: Turkish Neurosurgery
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.656-658
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Children, Hyponatremia, Seizure, Pseudocyst, Ventriculoperitoneal shunt
  • Manisa Celal Bayar Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Placement of ventriculoperitoneal(VP) shunt is a worldwide accepted procedure for treatment of hydrocephalus. This procedure have various intra-abdominal complications, of which pseudocyst formation is a rare one. Common presentations of this complication are abdominal mass, abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction, and shunt dysfunction. In this paper, we report a case of 3 year-old boy with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pseudocyst of the VP shunt presenting with hyponatremic seizure. To the best of our knowledge, hyponatremic seizure has not been previously reported as a presentation of abdominal CSF pseudocyst in the literature. Our case has also the largest CSF pseudocyst with respect to body surface area of the child in the literature.