title: [Morphology of tuberculous meningitis in children].
abstract: 25 observations of tuberculosis meningitis in children who died at the age from 3 months to 6 years with a clinical course from 5 days to 6.5 months were analyzed. Meningitis was not diagnosed clinically in 6 children. The inflammation was of an exudative or exudative-necrotic type at all periods of the disease. Specific features were: long-lasting macrophagal reaction, the presence of numerous plasma-cells (particularly at late stages of the disease), predominance of diffuse rather than granulomatous inflammation. Combination of delayed and immediate hypersensitivity reactions and possible organ specificity of the process may be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease.
authors: B N
authors: BN
authors: Tsibel'
authors: E P
authors: EP
authors: Antoshkina
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005122:Exudates and Transudates; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008264:Macrophages / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D010950:Plasma Cells / Q000473:pathology; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: O morfologii tuberkuleznogo meningita u deteĭ.