[Hypophyseal abscess and cerebral arteritis in a fatal course of pneumococcal meningitis].
Even today uncomplicated courses of pneumococcal meningitis show relatively high fatality rates. Abscess formation leads to a drastic deterioration of prognosis; the same applies to the rarely observed occurrence of a cerebral arteritis. Up to 1985 only 50 cases of pituitary abscess had been described in the literature. This case report describes the signs and symptoms as well as the neuroradiological and post mortem findings on a patient who succumbed to a pneumococcal meningitis, complicated by formation of a pituitary abscess and cerebral arteritis.
Schmutzhard
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Universitätsklinik für Neurologie, Universität Innsbruck.
Willeit
J
J
Langmayr
J
J
Rumpl
E
E
Prugger
M
M
Gerstenbrand
F
F
D000038:Abscess / Q000473:pathology*; D000328:Adult; D001167:Arteritis / Q000473:pathology*; D002539:Cerebral Arterial Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000473:pathology*; D010900:Pituitary Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Hypophysenabszess und zerebrale Arteriitis bei tödlich verlaufender Pneumokokkenmeningitis.