Embryonal Rest Tumor of the Central Nervous System

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A case is reported which manifests recurrent, resistant meningitis with an intraspinal embryonal rest tumor and a communicating ventral sinus tract. A review of the literature has disclosed no similar case. Report of Case This white girl was admitted to the University Hospital at the age of 15 months. She was the product of the second uneventful pregnancy and delivery of a 23-year-old healthy mother. Family history was unrevealing. Growth and development were essentially normal until the age of 9 months when the child contracted purulent meningitis. Klebsiella and paracolon bacilli were cultured and found to be sensitive to oxytetracycline (Terramycin) and chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin); after a two weeks' course of these antibiotics, recovery was apparently complete and spinal fluid normal. A second episode of purulent meningitis occurred at the age of 11 months. Cultures showed no growth. Treatment with sulfonamides, penicillin, and chloramphenicol was followed by clinical and spinal fluid

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