Intraoperative Common Carotid Artery Injury during Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Surgery

Shin Won Kwon; Jong-Myung Jung; Seil Sohn; Chun Kee Chung

doi:10.7461/jcen.2017.19.2.117

Intraoperative Common Carotid Artery Injury during Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Surgery

J Cerebrovasc Endovasc Neurosurg. 2017 Jun;19(2):117-119. doi: 10.7461/jcen.2017.19.2.117. Epub 2017 Jun 30.

Authors

Shin Won Kwon¹, Jong-Myung Jung¹, Seil Sohn², Chun Kee Chung^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Neurosurgery, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Korea.
³ Neuroscience Research Institute, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea.
⁴ Clinical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
⁵ Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Korea.
⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

There are a number of complications associated with ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) surgery. The authors present a rare case of iatrogenic common carotid artery injury during VPS surgery.

Keywords: Common carotid artery injury; Complication; Ventriculoperitoneal shunt.

Publication types

Case Reports