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Could hydrosephalus shunts cause broken ribs in children?
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NO: I have never heard of anything like this. The broken ribs are a result of a significant blunt trauma to the are unlikely to happen during the placement of the shunt of after. This is most probably related with other kind of injury
Answered 7/20/2014
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