title: [Meningitis as a complication of anterior-sacral meningocele].
abstract: A 19-year-old young man was admitted with a serious clinical picture of an infected anterior sacral meningocele. Escherichia coli was identified as the pathogenic organism in the spinal putrid fluid. A catheter percutaneously introduced in the hernial sac served as an external drainage of the fluid. At the same time a systemic antibiotic treatment was carried out. After the sanation, the opening of the meningocele was surgically closed in the interval transdurally from the dorsal direction. For this fibrinous adhesive was used in addition to the suture. After six months the hernial sac closure could be demonstrated in the check-up myelo- and computer tomogram.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004322:Drainage; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008588:Meningocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D009192:Myelography; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Meningitis als Komplikation einer anterior-sakralen Meningocele. Ein kasuistischer Beitrag.