Intracranial Migration of Intracranial Migration-A Rare Complication

Abstract

Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) Shunt, a common and seemingly simple procedure in the Neurosurgery armamentarium, is deviously strewn with complications, the most frequent being mechanical shunt failure and infection. In the gamut of complications plaguing this common lifesaving procedure, complete intracranial migration is extremely rare at 0.1-0.4% of all shunt procedures. Here, we are presenting two rare cases of intracranial shunt migration, which were managed by transcranial endoscopic surgery, an approach that is infrequently seen in our search of available literature.