PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Snyder, R D AU - Stovring, J AU - Cushing, A H AU - Davis, L E AU - Hardy, T L TI - Cerebral infarction in childhood bacterial meningitis AID - 10.1136/jnnp.44.7.581 DP - 1981 Jul 01 TA - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry PG - 581--585 VI - 44 IP - 7 4099 - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/44/7/581.short 4100 - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/44/7/581.full SO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry1981 Jul 01; 44 AB - 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.