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  • Title: Snare retrieval of migrated ventriculoatrial shunt.
    Author: James CA, McFarland DR, Wormuth CJ, Teo CM.
    Journal: Pediatr Radiol; 1997 Apr; 27(4):330-2. PubMed ID: 9094241.
    Abstract:
    Among the numerous complications of ventriculoatrial shunting, discontinuity and migration of a catheter fragment into the heart or pulmonary arteries is only rarely encountered. Percutaneous snare retrieval of shunt tubing from the pulmonary arteries is described in a patient presenting with signs of shunt malfunction.
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