Meningitis and sphenoidal sinusitis associated with free gas in the suprasellar cistern.
A case of pneumococcal meningitis in association with sphenoidal sinusitis is described. A focal gas collection was demonstrated adjacent to the posterior clinoid process. No discernible breach of the sphenoidal sinus walls could be shown.
Maxwell
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University Department of Paediatrics, Adelaide Children's Hospital, South Australia.
Couper
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Morris
L L
LL
Goldwater
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PN
Hansman
D J
DJ
D002648:Child; D015521:Ethmoid Sinusitis / Q000150:complications; D005740:Gases; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015524:Sphenoid Sinusitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005740:Gases