title: [Tuberculous meningitis in children].
abstract: Tuberculous meningitis in children is a rare disease and develops in the absence of the current complex of measures aimed at tuberculosis prophylaxis. In 62.7% of children the disease had a gradual course beginning with a prodromal period with infectious-toxic symptoms being predominant over meningeal and encephalitic ones. Basal localization of the process with cranial nerves involvement was diagnosed in 59% of patients. In 31.8% of children the disease took the course of diffuse meningoencephalitis, 9% has signs of leptomeningitis combined with thromboarteritis of the middle cerebral artery. In 63% of patients the course of meningitis proceeded as a progressive undetected and untreated tuberculosis. Five years later 18% of children died and 9% had nervous system affection.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Ivan'kova
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Pavlov
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents
vernacular_title: Tuberkuleznyĭ meningit u deteĭ.