BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To our knowledge, the upper limits of the thickness of
normal meninges on neurosonograms are not known. We therefore established a …

Cranial sonography plays an important role in the initial evaluation of infants with suspected
bacterial meningitis and in monitoring for complications of the disease. Echogenic widening …

Bacterial meningitis is a major diagnostic and therapeutic problem among children and
neonates, with severe, rapidly progressing course and potentially life-threatening …

A retrospective study was performed on 78 patients (newborn to 2 years old) with clinically
proved bacterial meningitis. Sonograms were obtained during the acute illness and medical …

Twenty-three infants with clinically proven bacterial meningitis were studied with real-time
cranial sonography at the time of initial diagnosis and in several cases subsequently. A …

BACKGROUND. Meningitis is a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates.
Clinicians frequently use the presence of positive blood cultures to determine whether …

Among 50 consecutive cases of bacterial meningitis in infants aged 6 months or less, 9
(Group I) were confirmed to have complications requiring neurosurgery during the first 2 …

Background. Aseptic meningitis is often reported to be characterized by a mononuclear cell
predominance in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), whereas bacterial meningitis is …

Computed tomography has been applied to childhood bacterial meningitis in an attempt to
analyze the structural basis for neurologic complications. The CT findings in meningitis …

Real-time sonographic findings in 20 infants with bacterial meningitis are reported. The
spectrum of features included normal scans, ventricular enlargement, focal areas of …