Spinal fluid in coccidioidal meningitis
Einstein, H.E.
Annals of Internal Medicine 78(4): 621
1973
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-4819 PMID: 4694062 Document Number: 64625
The author comments that coccidioidomycosis almost invariably is a basilar meningitis, and this would explain why ventricular therapy through the Ommaya valve is not very successful for coccidioidal meningitis and also why the ventricular count is not very high [RMVM 8, 1237].
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