Bacterial Meningitis in Spina Bifida Cystica
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Meningitis is a well-known complication of meningomyelocele, but the problems of its diagnosis and treatment have so far received scant attention. Some children with meningomyelocele have a small neurological deficit and no hydrocephalus. Others with hydrocephalus may benefit from modern treatment and grow up to lead normal lives. The problem of meningitis in meningomyelocele is, therefore, worthy of study. It is well known that purulent neonatal meningitis in anatomically normal children is a difficult diagnostic problem, and despite the advent of antibiotics it still carries a high mortality and grave sequelae in some of the survivors (Watson, 1957; Ziai and Haggerty, 1958; Groover, Sutherland and Landing, 1961). In the present paper we describe 37 cases of bacterial meningitis in children with spina bifida cystica.
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