Fatal cerebral herniation after lumbar puncture in a patient with a normal computed tomography scan

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 6 I, 1999, Pages 1284-1287

  Shetty, Avinash K ^a,b   Desselle, Bonnie C ^b   Craver, Randall D ^c   Steele, Russell W ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CHEYNE STOKES BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; FORAMEN MAGNUM; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MYDRIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN; CHILD; ENCEPHALOCELE; FATAL OUTCOME; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032999292     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.6.1284     Document Type: Article

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