Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases
Open Access

Case Report

Unusual Pyogenic Meningitis Masquerading as Leukodystrophy

Rajul Rastogi^1*, Prabhat Kumar Bhagat¹, Anshuman Srivastava², Yuktika Gupta¹, Pawan Joon¹, Asif Majid Wani¹ and Vijai Pratap¹

¹Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College and Research Center, Moradabad, UP, India

²School of Medical Science and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP, India

*Corresponding Author:

Rajul Rastogi
Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College and Research Center
Moradabad, UP, India
E-mail: eesharastogi@gmail.com

Received date: August 02, 2016; Accepted date: August 31, 2016; Published date: September 02, 2016

Citation: Rastogi R, Bhagat PK, Srivastava A, Gupta Y, Joon P, Wani AM, et al. (2016) Unusual Pyogenic Meningitis Masquerading as Leukodystrophy. J Neuroinfect Dis 7:225. doi: 10.4172/2314-7326.1000225

Copyright: ©2016 Rastogi R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Meningitis is a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric age-group with pyogenic cases outnumbering other etiologies especially in the Indian subcontinent. Though the diagnosis of meningitis is usually made on clinical and CSF examination yet imaging is often required to rule out focal lesions, hydrocephalus and other complications or when clinical examination is equivocal. Rarely, initial imaging may be normal or may suggest another diagnosis leading to clinicoradiological discordance making further detailed evaluation imperative. Hence, in this article, we present a rare case of pyogenic meningitis that mimicked leukodystrophy on initial imaging with unusual presentation on detailed imaging.

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