Case report: anaerobic meningitis caused by Peptostreptococcus magnus after head and neck surgery

Although anaerobic bacterial meningitis is uncommon, patients subjected to resection of head and neck malignancy appear at special risk. In this article, the authors report on a 72-year-old man in whom meningitis developed after extensive resection of the right sinuses for squamous cell carcinoma; i...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of the medical sciences 1994-09, Vol.308 (3), p.184-185
Hauptverfasser:	Brown, M A, Greene, J N, Sandin, R L, Vincent, A L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Carcinoma, Squamous Cell - surgery Cerebrospinal Fluid - microbiology Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - drug therapy Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology Humans Male Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms - surgery Meningitis, Bacterial - drug therapy Meningitis, Bacterial - microbiology Penicillin G - therapeutic use Peptostreptococcus - isolation & purification
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