Case Reports in Clinical Medicine

Vol.3 No.8(2014), Paper ID 48582, 7 pages

DOI:10.4236/crcm.2014.38099

 

A Girl with Life Threatening Meningitis Caused by an Infected Dermoid Cyst Derived from an Occult Dermal Sinus

 

Valentina Tono, Sara Bertoletti, Francesca Maltese, Francesco Canonico, Erik Sganzerla, Carlo Giussani, Maria Luisa Melzi, Andrea Biondi

 

Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy
Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy
Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Department of Neurosurgery, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Department of Neurosurgery, Ospedale S. Gerardo, Monza, Italy
Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy
Department of Pediatrics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Fondazione MBBM, Monza, Italy

 

Copyright © 2014 Valentina Tono, Sara Bertoletti, Francesca Maltese, Francesco Canonico, Erik Sganzerla, Carlo Giussani, Maria Luisa Melzi, Andrea Biondi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Tono, V. , Bertoletti, S. , Maltese, F. , Canonico, F. , Sganzerla, E. , Giussani, C. , Melzi, M. and Biondi, A. (2014) A Girl with Life Threatening Meningitis Caused by an Infected Dermoid Cyst Derived from an Occult Dermal Sinus. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 3, 450-456. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2014.38099.

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