Peritoneal insertion of shunts in children: comparison between trocar and laparoscopically guided insertion.
Marga SerafimovaJehuda SolemanTabea StoesselRaphael GuzmanShlomi ConstantiniJonathan RothPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2020)
In primary shunt surgery in children, abdominal placement of the catheter using a trocar or laparoscopic guidance is safe, and associated with a low distal malfunction rate, with no statistically significant differences between both techniques.