title: Recurrent bacterial meningitis occurring five years after closed head injury and caused by an intranasal post-traumatic meningo-encephalocele.
abstract: A case of atypical presentation of a post-traumatic intranasal meningo-encephalocele is described in a patient with a history of recurrent bacterial meningitis occurring 5 years after closed head injury. The usefulness of the CT and MRI findings in diagnostic evaluation of this lesion is emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of San Donà di Piave, Venice, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giunta
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Piazza
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications*; D004677:Encephalocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000209:etiology*; D008588:Meningocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed