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Images in emergency medicine
Where the tube is?
  1. J C Cataño,
  2. M A Maya
  1. Infectious Diseases Section, Internal Medicine Department, University of Antioquia Medical School, Medellín, Colombia
  1. Correspondence toDr Juan Carlos Cataño, Internal Medicine Department, University of Antioquia Medical School, Calle 8 Sur #43 B-112, Medellín, Colombia; kataju{at}hotmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2010.091603

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    A 60-year-old woman had a spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage, developed hydrocephalus and had undergone ventriculoperitoneal shunting 6 months earlier. She came to the emergency room after her daughter noted that something was coming out of her anus. On admission, she was asymptomatic, afebrile, …

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