Pituitary abscess with recurrent aseptic meningitis.

Recurrent sterile meningitis caused by a pituitary abscess.

The case of a 21 year old woman who presented with recurrent sterile meningitis and bitemporal hemianopia is described. Computed tomographic scan showed a large low density ring enhancing lesion above and within the pituitary fossa which at operation and on histological examination was found to be compatible with an abscess. The visual field defect recovered completely and the scan appearances ...

Recurrent aseptic meningitis secondary to intracranial epidermoids.

Two patients with recurrent aseptic meningitis are reported. Intracranial epidermoid tumors were eventually found in both patients. CSF changes in our first case with an epidermoid tumor were similar to those reported in Mollaret's meningitis, with an initial polymorphonuclear pleocytosis early in each attack, followed by a lymphocytic predominance several days later. Large cells which proved t...

Aseptic meningitis with relapsing polychondritis

Acute Aseptic Meningitis

aseptic meningitis or benign lymphocytic meningitis has been given. Wallgren (1925) gave the first account of this condition. His observa, tions were based on a small epidemic. Since then it has been described from time to time by many physicians under different names ?aseptic benign purulent meningitis (Schiff, 1930), idiopathic benign serous, meningitis (Andersen and Wulff, 1930), epidemic me...

Aseptic meningitis with relapsing polychondritis mimicking bacterial meningitis.

Relapsing polychondritis (RP) is a rare multisystem autoimmune disease. Though meningitis in RP is not common, some cases with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pleocytosis of the lymphocyte cells have been reported. Of the 18 previously reported cases, two cases demonstrated pleocytosis of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in the CSF. In addition, cases with a decreased glucose level in the CSF were ...