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Treatment for hydrocephalus with posterior fossa cyst & vp shunt insertion with pyogenic meaningitis?
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Pyogenic: infection in the face of a VP shunt will inevitably require that the shunt be removed, the infection treated with antibiotics and then the shunt replaced.
Answered 11/26/2014
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