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Cerebral infarction in childhood bacterial meningitis
  1. R D Snyder,
  2. J Stovring,
  3. A H Cushing,
  4. L E Davis,
  5. T L Hardy
  1. Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  2. Department of Radiology, University of New Mexico Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Medical Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Abstract

    Forty-nine children with complicated bacterial meningitis were studied. Thirteen had abnormalities on computed tomography compatible with the diagnosis of brain infarction; one had a brain biopsy with the histological appearance of infarction. Factors exist in childhood bacterial meningitis which are associated with the development of brain infraction.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.44.7.581

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