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Case Reports
. 1998 Oct;51(4):1200-2.
doi: 10.1212/wnl.51.4.1200.

Coma in fulminant pneumococcal meningitis: new MRI observations

S Vernino  1 , E F Wijdicks, P F McGough
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Case Reports

Coma in fulminant pneumococcal meningitis: new MRI observations

S Vernino et al. Neurology. 1998 Oct.

Abstract

We report a 45-year-old man with fulminant pneumococcal meningitis. Fluid attenuated inverse ratio MR images showed the ravaging consequences of occlusive vasculopathy and a transient purulent basal exudate. Bilateral thalamic lesions may have explained the failure to awaken despite appropriate antibiotic therapy.

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