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We report on the dislocation of the tip of a lumbo-peritoneal shunting cath
eter into the cerebral parenchyma 10 months after insertion. The progressiv
e migration towards the deep structures of the brain, once the catheter had
left the peritoneal cavity, might have been caused by CSF-flow. Such hypot
hesis is supported by modern MRI technology Visualizing CSF-flow in a spine
-cerebral direction. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.