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Symptomatic aseptic, chemical meningitis is a rare complication of myelography . Its acute clinical course and standard laboratory findings are indistinguishab le from those of bacterial meningitis. The authors present a case of severe post myelographic chemical meningitis and compare CSF and serum inflammatory markers to a group of seven patients with proven bacterial meningitis. As in viral menin gitis, procalcitonin might be able to discriminate between bacterial and chemica l causes of CNS inflammation.
Symptomatic aseptic, chemical meningitis is a rare complication of myelography. Its acute clinical course and standard laboratory findings are indistinguishable from those of bacterial meningitis. The authors present a case of severe post myelographic chemical meningitis and compare CSF and serum inflammatory markers to a group of seven patients with proven bacterial meningitis. As in viral menin gitis, procalcitonin might be able to discriminate between bacterial and chemica l causes of CNS inflammation.