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A Clinicl Picture of Aseptic Meningitis as Portrayed from a Study of 150 Patients During Three‐Year Observation
Author(s) -
Yui Ikuko,
Watanabe Jun,
Takeuchi Yoshinao
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
pediatrics international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1442-200X
pISSN - 1328-8067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-200x.1984.tb01858.x
Subject(s) - aseptic meningitis , medicine , pleocytosis , cerebrospinal fluid , meningitis , aseptic processing , csf pleocytosis , pathology , pediatrics , surgery
One‐hundred and fifty patients with aseptic meningitis were studied in order to investigate their clinical manifestations and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contents. The patients were classified according to causative organisms and/or associated diseases. Hypoglychorrhachia was found in nearly half of the total CSF samples from patients with mumps meningitis. A coxsackie virus was isolated from a CSF specimen from one patient who had typical meningeal signs but had no pleocytosis (so‐called meningism).