Cranial sonography in pyogenic meningitis in neonates and infants

Cranial sonography was performed in 34 infants with proven meningitis and with clinical suspicion of its complications, utilizing the patent anterior fontanelle. Twenty-five patients showed various sonographic findings which included ventriculomegaly, echogenic sulci, subdural effusion, ventriculitis, infarction/cerebritis, cerebral oedema, porencephalic cyst, etc. Sonography is safe and cost-effective in diagnosis of complications, and management of pyogenic meningitis in infants.