Literature DB >> 1265638

Pellet-gun brain wound complicated by Clostridium Perfringens meningitis.

W O DeWeese, H J LeBlanc, D G Kline.   

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.

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Year:  1976        PMID: 1265638

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Surg Neurol        ISSN: 0090-3019


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