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Purulent meningitis with unusual diffusion-weighted MRI findings
M Abe1, Y Takayama, H Yamashita
1Department of Neurology, Fukui Red Cross Hospital, 2-4-1 Tsukimi, Fukui 918-8501, Japan.
European Journal of Radiology
|September 28, 2002
Abstract:
We describe unusual findings obtained by diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a patient with acute purulent meningitis caused by penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae. Along cerebral convexities and the Sylvian fissure, multiple small intense lesions showed high signal intensity in these sequences. This may be the first report of diffusion-weighted in purulent meningitis.