creators_name: Hassan, M
creators_name: Amer, S
creators_name: Sklar, L
creators_name: Hassan, S
creators_id: drsyedamer1@gmail.com
editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas
editors_id: Kakkilaya BS
type: journale
datestamp: 2015-02-21 14:35:26
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title: Atypical Presentation of Mollaret’s Meningitis
ispublished: pub
subjects: OJHAS
full_text_status: public
keywords: Mollaret’s meningitis; Atypical.
abstract: Mollaret’s meningitis is mostly described in the setting of recurrent attacks of fever along with signs and symptoms of meningitis. It resolves spontaneously without any treatment and in most of the cases no causative organism is identified. Here we present an atypical case of mollaret’s meningitis in which the patient presented with headache and meningismus in the absence of fever.
date: 2013-11-15
date_type: published
publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
volume: 12
number: 3(18)
publisher: Kakkilaya BS
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Hassan, M and Amer, S and Sklar, L and Hassan, S  (2013) Atypical Presentation of Mollaret’s Meningitis.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/9705/1/2013-3-18.pdf