An Uncommon Case of Pediatric Neurobrucellosis Associated with Intracranial Hypertension

We present the case of a 4-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital with intracranial hypertension, headache, diplopia, papilledema, and a normal brain MRI. Brucella melitensis in the cerebrospinal fluid was confirmed with PCR assay. We believe that neurobrucellosis should be included in the differ...

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Autores principales: Sinopidis, Xenophon, Kaleyias, Joseph, Mitropoulou, Konstantina, Triga, Maria, Kothare, Sanjeev V., Mantagos, Stefanos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22900217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/492467

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22900217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/492467

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