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Intracranial migration of a fractured intrathecal catheter from a baclofen pump system: case report and analysis of possible causes.

Todd A Maugans

Neurosurgery 66(2):319-22 (2010) PMID 20087131

This case report describes a new complication associated with a baclofen pump in which its fractured intrathecal catheter migrated into the patient's ventricular system. A thecal model was developed to evaluate catheter buoyancy in artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). The literature was reviewed to identify possible mechanical and physiologic causes of catheter migration.

DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000363183.78323.D7
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