title: Brainstem involvement in Legionnaires' disease.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a case of Legionella pneumonia with unusual neurologic involvement.
  
  
  METHODS
  Chest X-ray, lumbar puncture, magnetic imaging of the brain, electroencephalography, audiometry, brainstem acoustic evoked potentials and institution of oral antibiotics and steroids.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Gradual clinical improvement of neurologic and pulmonary illness within 4 weeks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Legionellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of neurologic involvement in the setting of pneumonia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Second University of Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Morelli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Battaglia
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lattuada
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D016952:Legionella pneumophila / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male