Lumboperitoneal shunts

✓ A series of 34 lumboperitoneal shunts performed at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, for communicating hydrocephalus is reviewed. The ease of placement and revision of this shunt, the relatively benign complications that occurred, and the fact that 21 of these 34 patients are still using lumboperitoneal shunts with good control of the hydrocephalus have justified continuing use of this method as the initial bypass procedure in the treatment of communicating hydrocephalus.