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Noncongenital central nervous system infections in children: radiology review
Jorge Humberto Davila Acosta1, Claudia Isabel Lazarte Rantes, Andres Arbelaez
1From the *Diagnostic Imaging Department, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; †Neuroradiology Section, Radiological Department, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Medellin, Colombia; ‡Neuroradiology Unit, Link Diagnostico Digital, Medellín, Colombia; §University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Abstract:
Infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are a very common worldwide health problem in childhood with significant morbidity and mortality. In children, viruses are the most common cause of CNS infections, followed by bacterial etiology, and less frequent due to mycosis and other causes. Noncomplicated meningitis is easier to recognize clinically; however, complications of meningitis such as abscesses, infarcts, venous thrombosis, or extra-axial empyemas are difficult to recognize clinically, and imaging plays a very important role on this setting. In addition, it is important to keep in mind that infectious process adjacent to the CNS such as mastoiditis can develop by contiguity in an infectious process within the CNS. We display the most common causes of meningitis and their complications.
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