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A Case With Cauda Equina Syndrome Due to Bacterial Meningitis of Anterior Sacral Meningocele

2004· article· en· W2055956596 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueSpine · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpinal Dysraphism and Malformations
Canadian institutionsDiscovery Air (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineCauda equina syndromeCauda equinaSurgeryMeningitisAbscessSpinal cord

Abstract

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STUDY DESIGN: A case of a patient with anterior sacral meningocele that was misdiagnosed as perianal abscess is presented. After the transrectal aspiration, the patient developed meningitis and cauda equina syndrome. OBJECTIVE: To report a rare case of anterior sacral meningocele in which primary presentation was mimicking perianal abscess. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND DATA: Anterior sacral meningocele is a rare example of spinal dysraphism. It is created by a herniation of a dural sac through a defect in the sacral wall. It is usually asymptomatic until later decades. Most of the presenting symptoms are related to the pelvic organs. In the management of anterior sacral meningocele, surgical treatment is necessary. METHODS: The reported case is that of a 35-year-old female with cauda equina syndrome due to bacterial meningitis of the anterior sacral meningocele. At the beginning, she presented signs and symptoms resembling perianal abscess. She was misdiagnosed as anorectal abscess according to the computed tomography findings. The patient then underwent transrectal aspiration. Following the aspiration, meningitis and cauda equina syndrome were developed. Meningitis was treated with the appropriate antibiotics, and the patient underwent rehabilitation for paraplegia and bladder and bowel incontinence. RESULTS: Following the rehabilitation program, the patient has recovered completely within 8 months. CONCLUSION: This case represents a rare example of anterior sacral meningocele in which the patient was misdiagnosed as perianal abscess. Meningitis either iatrogenic or spontaneous may occur during the course of anterior sacral meningocele. Once it has occurred, it may result in severe morbidity and mortality. However, our case had been treated effectively, and she had regained her health with rehabilitation program.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.652
Threshold uncertainty score0.423

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it