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Record W4408200385 · doi:10.1016/j.eucr.2025.102998

Urethral migration of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt in a 6-month-Old female infant: A rare complication of hydrocephalus management

2025· article· en· W4408200385 on OpenAlexaff
Yalda Obaidy, Ajmal Sherzad, Dunya Moghul

Bibliographic record

VenueUrology Case Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicCerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
Canadian institutionsMcGill University Health CentreMontreal Children's Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineHydrocephalusComplicationShunt (medical)SurgeryPediatrics

Abstract

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Hydrocephalus, occurring in 0.9-1.8 per 1,000 births, is managed through ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement. This intervention carries potential complications, with migration and infection being predominant concerns. 6-month-old female infant presented with VP shunt migration through the urethra, 5 months after hydrocephalus treatment. Clinical manifestations included irritability, mild fever, vomiting, and tense, bulging fontanelle. Laboratory findings revealed elevated white blood cell count of 21,000/mm 3 and positive microbiological cultures. Surgical intervention involved catheter removal, and shunt revision. This rare case of VP shunt urethral migration highlights the critical importance of vigilant monitoring and prompt, multidisciplinary intervention in pediatric neurosurgery

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.138
Threshold uncertainty score0.596

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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