Hydrocele secondary to entrapped ventriculo peritoneal shunt tubing

ABSTRACT

A complication of ventriculo-peritoneal shunt is reported in a 14 months old boy with hydrocephalus, who presented with an enlarging right side of the scrotum of 48 hours duration. The shunt tubing was draining cerebrospinal fluid directly into the right tunica vaginails via a persistent processus vaginalis