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. 1978 Jul;41(7):672–673. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.41.7.672

Cryptococcal meningitis complicating remote skull fracture.

F T Lester
PMCID: PMC493114  PMID: 690646

Abstract

A patient in whom cryptococcal meningitis complicated a nine year old depressed frontal skull fracture, an association which has not been reported previously, is recorded. This is also the first case of cryptococcal meningitis recognised in Ethiopia.

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