Cerebral abscess associated with meningococcal meningitis.
Purulent fluid collections, including brain abscess and subdural empyema, are exceedingly rare in association with meningococcal meningitis. We present a 5-month-old infant with meningococcal meningitis and sepsis complicated by an intracerebral abscess.
Rothbaum
Emily
E
Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
Nicholson
Ouzama
O
Prince
Alice
A
D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008585:Meningitis, Meningococcal / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed