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A member asked:
Could calcifacation on shunt be the reason it hurts pain is along shunt tract ?
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Can cause pain: Calcification can occur around catheter most comonly in shunts placed in early childhood in the neck. Fibrous reaction occurs around tubing and sometimes this tcalcifies..Tensile stresses on the tubing as it passes from the mobile neck to relatively immobile chest wall may be responsible for stress-related degeneration in the cervicothoracic section of the tubing. Some patients experience pain.
Answered 2/19/2015
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