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. 2022 Mar;18(2):253-255.
doi: 10.3988/jcn.2022.18.2.253.

Concurrent Spontaneous Pneumocephalus and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Klebsiella Pneumoniae Meningitis

Eun Ji Lee  1 , Rae On Kim  1 , Mina Lee  1 , Byung-Euk Joo  2
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Concurrent Spontaneous Pneumocephalus and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Due to Klebsiella Pneumoniae Meningitis

Eun Ji Lee et al. J Clin Neurol. 2022 Mar.
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The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Serial brain computed tomography (CT) was performed at the symptom onset day (A, B) and at 7 days after symptom onset (C). A: The initial CT images showed right chronic otitis media (long arrow) but were otherwise unremarkable. B: Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) (short arrows) in both cerebral sulci (B-1, B-2) and the suprasellar cistern (B-3) was observed in 15-hour follow-up CT images. C: Diffuse brain swelling and pneumocephalus (arrowheads) within intravascular (C-1, C-2, C-3), subdural (C-1, C-2, C-3), intraparenchymal (C-2, C-3) spaces were observed in 7-day follow-up CT images.
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