[Subdural exudate in bacterial meningitis in children]. / Subdural'nyi vypot pri bakterial'nykh meningitakh u detei.

A subdural exudate (SE) complicating bacterial meningitis in 28 children was diagnosed by the findings at diaphanoscopy, subdurography, thermography, CT, EEG, echo-EG, rheo-EG in the evidence of aggravating neurological symptoms. SE drainage was carried out in all the cases, in 20 patients it was bilateral. CNS age-specific anatomicophysiological features responsible for emergence of the exudate primarily in the anterior hemispheric compartments subject to consequent atrophy are considered when assessing mechanisms of the exudate development in infants.