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ArticleBMJ case reports2020

Urinary retention with occult meningeal reaction: a 'form fruste' meningitis-retention syndrome.

Ryuji Sakakibara, Daiki Sakai, Fuyuki Tateno, Yosuke Aiba

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Meningitis-retention syndrome: a review and update of an unrecognized clinical condition.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ryuji SakakibaraNeurology, Internal Medicine, Toho University, Sakura Medical Centre, Sakura, Chiba, Japan sakakibara@sakura.med.toho-u.ac.jp.
Daiki SakaiNeurology, Internal Medicine, Toho University, Sakura Medical Centre, Sakura, Chiba, Japan.
Fuyuki TatenoNeurology, Internal Medicine, Toho University, Sakura Medical Centre, Sakura, Chiba, Japan.
Yosuke AibaNeurology, Internal Medicine, Toho University, Sakura Medical Centre, Sakura, Chiba, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the case of a 70-year-old Japanese man who was referred from a local urologist because of acute urinary retention (detrusor underactivity revealed by a urodynamics examination). A neurogenic urinary retention workup failed to reveal the aetiology, but a spinal tap incidentally showed occult meningeal reaction with positive oligoclonal band. The patient had no headache, nausea/vomiting or fever. Considering his clinical laboratory findings, his neural lesions seemed to involve the meninges and spinal cord, suggestive of

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AftercareAgedAsian PeopleHumansMaleMeningesMeningitisOligoclonal BandsSpinal CordSpinal PunctureUrinary Bladder, UnderactiveUrinary RetentionUrodynamicsOligoclonal Bandscatheterisation / catheter caremeningitisneurologyspinal cordurology

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PMID33203783
PMCPMC7674081

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