RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cerebral infarction in childhood bacterial meningitis
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 581
OP 585
DO 10.1136/jnnp.44.7.581
VO 44
IS 7
A1 Snyder, R D
A1 Stovring, J
A1 Cushing, A H
A1 Davis, L E
A1 Hardy, T L
YR 1981
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/44/7/581.abstract
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.