Handler L C, Wright M G
Neuroradiology. 1978;16:31-5. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-66959-0_11.
Postmeningitic hydrocephalus in infancy accounts for at least 30% (maybe even 40%) of all new paediatric hydrocephalics seen in the Cape Province. The causes of the marked racial preponderance are considered. Meningitis is more prone to cause a CSF pathway block at any site in infancy than later in life. On ventriculography ventricular septa in 23%, foramen of Monro obstruction in 13%, multiple CSF pathway block occasionally and intraventricular detritus causing filling defects and irregularities of the ventricular walls are the salient features. Birth trauma with intraventricular bleeding may on occasion cause similar changes.
婴儿期脑膜炎后脑积水占开普省所有新诊断小儿脑积水病例的至少30%（甚至可能达40%）。文中探讨了这种明显种族差异的原因。与生命后期相比，脑膜炎在婴儿期更易导致脑脊液通路在任何部位受阻。脑室造影显示，23%的病例存在室间隔，13%存在室间孔阻塞，偶尔有多条脑脊液通路受阻，以及脑室内碎屑导致充盈缺损和室壁不规则，这些是主要特征。伴有脑室内出血的产伤偶尔也可引起类似改变。
