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Three of five patients in our total cohort who exhibited focal CNS signs or meningismus were subsequently found to have CSF leucocytosis on LP; however, such signs have not been found uniformly discriminating (19).

The yield of lumbar puncture to exclude nosocomial meningitis as aetiology for mental status changes in the medical intensive care unit

fever, rigors, headache, meningismus, paralysis, and mental status changes, and abnormalities in white blood cell count, transaminases, or cerebral spinal fluid [if clinically indicated]).

Other presentations could include cranial nerve palsies and symptoms/signs of elevated intracranial pressure and meningismus.

Intracranial lesions mimicking neoplasms

The patient most commonly presents with one or more of the following symptoms: fever, headaches, meningismus, visual or mental status disturbances, or irritability.

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

Straight leg raise did not elicit radicular pain, and she exhibited no meningismus.

A 63-year-old woman with lumbago

His condition was septic, with clinical symptoms of meningismus and pulmonary congestion.

Transmission of streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus infection from horses to humans

Neurologic complaints were visual disturbances, 25 patients (51%); headache, 16 (32%); gait difficulty, two (4%); hearing loss, two (4%); meningismus, one (2%); altered mental status, one (2%); and unknown symptoms, two (4%).

Symptomatic early neurosyphilis among HIV-positive men who have sex with men--four Cities, United States, January 2002-June 2004

Signs and symptoms of this include decreased level of consciousness, headache, neck pain, meningismus, increased temperature, and blurred vision.

Neurocysticercosis: nursing perspectives

There was no regional adenopathy or evidence of meningismus.

A Healthy 31-Year-Old Man With Sinusitis

Symptoms of meningitis may include behavioral or mental status changes, fever, vomiting, meningismus, and headache.

Haemophilus Influenzae Type B Disease, Vaccines, and Care of Exposed Individuals

Symptoms in the patient were typical of neurologic disorders of IAE, including disorientation, meningismus, agitation, seizures, and coma (2,4).

Fatal influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 encephalopathy in immunocompetent man

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