PEDIATRICS Vol. 49 No. 1 January 1972, pp. 127-128
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Salmonella-Infected Subdural Hematoma

Phillip I. Lerner M.D.1, Patrick F. Goldon M.D.2, and John A. Jane M.D.3

1 Department of Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
2 Medical Arts Building, Tenth and Mill Streets, Eugene, Oregon 97401
3 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901

A 13-year-old girl developed persistent and progressively severe headache 4 months after partial removal of a posterior fossa astrocytoma and subtotal gastrectomy for upper intestinal hemorrhage. Antibiotics and craniotomy were required to eliminate a subdural hematoma that had become infected, sometime in the interim, with Salmonella St. Paul.