Kumari Anita, Agrawal Satish C
Department of Pediatrics, SRMS Institute of Medical Science, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
J Pediatr Neurosci. 2011 Jan;6(1):84-6. doi: 10.4103/1817-1745.84420.
Pneumocephalus is a rare condition, characterized by the presence of gas in the cranial cavity, resulting from trauma, tumors and surgical or diagnostic procedures. Intracranial infection, without any predisposing factor like trauma or surgical intervention as a cause of pneumocephalus is relatively uncommon. While, intracranial infections by gas producing organisms as a cause of pneumocephalus are well known, a spontaneous intracranial infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus causing pneumocephalus is little known. We report here a child who developed pneumocephalus following staphylococcal lung infection with meningitis and eventually showed complete recovery. Meningitis should be considered as a possible cause of pneumocephalus in absence of trauma and surgical intervention.
气颅是一种罕见的病症，其特征为颅腔内存在气体，由外伤、肿瘤以及外科手术或诊断操作引起。颅内感染若无外伤或外科干预等诱发因素作为气颅的病因则相对少见。虽然产气微生物引起的颅内感染作为气颅的病因已为人熟知，但由金黄色葡萄球菌引起的自发性颅内感染导致气颅却鲜为人知。我们在此报告一名儿童，其在发生葡萄球菌性肺部感染合并脑膜炎后出现气颅，最终完全康复。在无外伤和外科干预的情况下，应考虑脑膜炎可能是气颅的病因。
