Pneumococcal Cerebrospinal Meningitis: A Rare Complication of Pediatric Temporal Bone Fracture

A Rare Complication of Tuberculous Meningitis Pediatric Anterior Glenohumeral Instability

Dislocation and instability of the shoulder joint are rare occurrences in childhood. Traumatic, infectious, congenital, and neuromuscular causes of pediatric recurrent shoulder dislocations are reported before. Central nervous system infection in infancy may be a reason for shoulder instability during childhood. This situation, which causes a disability for children, can be treated successfully...

Observations on Pneumococcal Meningitis as a Complication of Kala-Azar

Observations on Pneumococcal Meningitis as a Complication of Kala-Azar

uncommon but grave complication. During the recent outbreak of kala-azar in Calcutta that commenced after the Bengal famine of 1943. increasing numbers of seriously complicated cases of kala-azar were seen (Sen Gupta, 1947) and one of the grave complications was pneumococcal meningitis. During the last two years, 1945 and 1946, four cases of kala-azar who had developed this complication were ad...

Cervical plate fracture: a rare complication

In traumatic and degenerative diseases cervical fusion with anterior cervical plate are commonly used. The increase in the use of cervical plate segment level is also increased risk of developing complications. This case report shows that the increase in the use of cervical plate segment level and also the complications in cervical spinal instrumentation, short-segment cervical plate rare case ...

1775: a Rare Case of Pneumococcal Meningitis and Vertebral Osteomyelitis.

SEPTEMBER 2015 PRACTICAL NEUROLOGY 47 A 61-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension initially presented in the emergency department with fever, chest pain, and tachycardia. He was found to have a left lower lobe infiltrate on admission chest x-ray. He also had left lower extremity edema. A CT angiogram of the thorax was negative for pulmonary embolism and a lower extremity Dopp...