JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC INFECTION, cilt.12, sa.2, 2018 (ESCI)
Objective: We investigated demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics of children with ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt infection in this study. The aim of this study was to make a comparison between the values obtained before and after treatment, and those obtained before treatment and of the control groups in terms of platelet count, mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) values in the diagnosis of VP shunt infection.