Unusual exanthema combined with cerebral vasculitis in pneumococcal meningitis: a case report
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Unusual exanthema combined with cerebral vasculitis in pneumococcal meningitis: a case report
INTRODUCTION Bacterial meningitis is a complex, rapidly progressive disease in which neurological injury is caused in part by the causative organism and in part by the host's own inflammatory responses. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a two-year-old Greek girl with pneumococcal meningitis and an atypical curvilinear-like skin eruption, chronologically associated with cerebral vasculi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Case Reports
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1752-1947
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-410