Ventriculoperitoneal shunt migrated to scrotum through inguinal hernia - Case report

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt is the most used method for the treatment of communicating hydrocephalus. Common complications include shunt dysfunction and infection. This case report aims to present a patient, with recurrent visits to the emergency department for abdominal pain and agitation, and whose distal catheter previously disconnected, was housed inside the scrotum through a scrotal inguinal hernia. The association of inguinal hernia and catheter migration is uncommon in adults, being more frequent in infants possibly because of the higher rate of patent processus vaginalis and increased abdominal pressure. No similar case was found in the literature by the time this article has been written.