Cerebral infarction in childhood bacterial meningitis
AUTOR(ES)
Snyder, R D
RESUMO
Forty-nine children with complicated bacterial meningitis were studied. Thirteen had abnormalities on computed tomography compatible with the diagnosis of brain infarction; one had a brain biopsy with the histological appearance of infarction. Factors exist in childhood bacterial meningitis which are associated with the development of brain infraction.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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