HighlightsLumbar-peritoneal (LP) and ventriculo-peritoneal (VP) shunt placement is the treatment of choice for diversion of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from the subarachnoid space into the peritoneal cavity.Perforation of the bowel by lumbar-peritoneal or ventriculo-peritoneal shunt is an extremely rare complication.We report a case of a 72 old female patient with LP shunt for raised intracranial pressure, who presented with LP shunt catheter protruding from anus.She was surgically treated with removal of the distal part of the shunt, external drainage of the proximal part and primary closure of the perforation.
In this paper we address the problem of discovering word semantic similarities via statistical processing of text corpora. We propose a knowledge-poor method that exploits the sentencial context of words for extracting similarity relations between them as well as semantic in nature word clusters. The approach aims at full portability across domains and languages and therefore is based on minimal resources.
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