Mystery Case: Frontal meningoencephalocele causing recurrent bacterial meningitis
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Mystery case: frontal meningoencephalocele causing recurrent bacterial meningitis.
A 34-year-old woman presented initially with meningococcal meningitis and with Streptococcus mitis meningitis 6 months later. A right cribriform plate area meningoencephalocele was discovered on MRI at the second episode. In retrospect, this abnormality was present on initial MRI (figure). The patient recalled intermittent watery rhinorrhea for 1 year preceding the first meningitis episode, but...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318296e8e0