The watershed program offers technical assistance to watershed groups, municipalities, and individual citizens. A watershed is a geographic area of land across which water, and the sediments and dissolved materials it contains, flow on their way to a single common outlet -- a stream, lake or river.
A lumbar peritoneal (LP) shunt is a technique of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion from the lumbar thecal sac to the peritoneal cavity.
What is Removal of LP shunt? A lumboperitoneal or lumbar-peritoneal shunt (LP shunt) is used in neurological disorders; it is used to treat chronic increased intracranial pressure to drain excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Complications may arise and may warrant a removal or revision of the LP shunt. See patients taking Removal of LP shunt.