Recurrent meningitis in a child with intranasal encephalocele
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Recurrent bacterial meningitis occurring five years after closed head injury and caused by an intranasal post-traumatic meningo-encephalocele.
A case of atypical presentation of a post-traumatic intranasal meningo-encephalocele is described in a patient with a history of recurrent bacterial meningitis occurring 5 years after closed head injury. The usefulness of the CT and MRI findings in diagnostic evaluation of this lesion is emphasized.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0976-3147,0976-3155
DOI: 10.4103/0976-3147.91981