title: Cranial sonography in pyogenic meningitis in neonates and infants.
abstract: Cranial sonography was performed in 34 infants with proven meningitis and with clinical suspicion of its complications, utilizing the patent anterior fontanelle. Twenty-five patients showed various sonographic findings which included ventriculomegaly, echogenic sulci, subdural effusion, ventriculitis, infarction/cerebritis, cerebral oedema, porencephalic cyst, etc. Sonography is safe and cost-effective in diagnosis of complications, and management of pyogenic meningitis in infants.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004453:Echoencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016920:Meningitis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed