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Cairns' syndrome
Synonyms:
Postmeningitic CSF block.
Associated persons:
Hugh William Bell Cairns
Description:
Tubercular arachnoiditis-hydrocephalus. Occurs in children who have survived meningitis. Symptomatology similar to that caused by a posterior fossa neoplasm; communicating or noncommunicating hydrocephalus; occasionally, impaired vision and presence of visual field defects (chiasma lesions); focal symptoms (cerebral cortex lesions).
Bibliography:
- Sergio I. Magalini, Sabina C. Magalini, Giovanni de Francisi.
Dictionary of Medical Syndromes.
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. 1971, 1981, 1990.
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