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Venous sinus thrombosis after Proteus vulgaris meningitis and concomitant Clostridium abscess formation
Hürrem Bodur1, Aylin Colpan, Ramazan Gozukucuk
1Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Turkey.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|October 11, 2002
Abstract:
A 19-y-old woman presented with Proteus vulgaris meningitis as a complication of chronic otitis media. Despite treatment with ceftazidime and amikacin no clinical improvement was observed. Cranial MRI revealed right-sided mastoiditis/otitis media and venous sinus thrombosis. After mastoidectomy, repeat cranial MRI demonstrated abscess formation in the venous sinuses. The abscess was drained. Clostridium spp. was isolated from the abscess culture.