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Pellet-gun brain wound complicated by Clostridium Perfringens meningitis
Surgical Neurology
|April 1, 1976
Abstract:
A ten-year-old male was hospitalized for a pellet-gun wound to the brain. He developed Clostridial meningitis within eighteen hours in spite of radical debridement and prophylactic antibiotics. However, successful recovery was obtained with high levels of penicillin and chloromycetin antibiotic therapy.