RT - Journal
TY - JOUR
A1 - Kumar, Ajay
A1 - Prajapati, Sahaj
A1 - Chatterjee, Arka
A1 - Tanger, Ramesh
T1 - Spontaneous in vivo knotting of tubes and catheters—An unintentional surgeon’s knot
YR - 2018/10/1
JF - International Journal of Health & Allied Sciences
JO - Int J Health Allied Sci
SP - 213
OP - 216
VO - 7
IS - 4
UL - https://www.ijhas.in/article.asp?issn=2278-344X;year=2018;volume=7;issue=4;spage=213;epage=216;aulast=Kumar;t=5
DO - 10.4103/DYPJ.DYPJ_57_22
N2 - Foley’s catheter and nasogastric tubes are very commonly used at every medical facility and are usually safe for the patients. Ventriculo-peritoneal shunting is the most common pediatric neurosurgical procedure. Although Shunt failure is unfortunately quite common, knotting of an intraperitoneal end of shunt tubing is very rare. We report three cases of in vivo knotting in different body cavities and possible methods to remove the catheters.
ER -