Spontaneous disappearance of a middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst after suppurative meningitis

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 487-491

  Yoshioka, Hiroyuki ^a   Kurisu, Kaoru ^a   Arita, Kazunori ^a   Eguchi, Kuniki ^a   Tominaga, Atsushi ^a   Mizoguchi, Nobuyuki ^a   Tajima, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arachnoid cyst; Spontaneous disappearance; Suppurative meningitis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; PHENOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; CASE REPORT; EPILEPTIC STATE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; REMISSION; SUBDURAL EFFUSION;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORINS; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; PENICILLINS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032213404     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00192-4     Document Type: Article

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