An unusual presentation of meningitis as a consequence of inadvertent dural puncture.
Bacterial meningitis and aseptic meningitis have been reported as a consequence of spinal anaesthesia. The case we report is of an unusual presentation of meningitis, for which no cause was found, in a patient who received epidural anaesthesia, complicated by dural puncture.
Sansome
A J
AJ
Department of Anaesthesia, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, UK.
Barnes
G R
GR
Barrett
R F
RF