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Lumbar drainage as treatment of refractory intracranial hypertension in bacterial meningitis

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  1. Service de réanimation pédiatrique, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 5 place d’Arsonval, 69437, Lyon, France

    Etienne Javouhey, Nathalie Richard, Didier Stamm & Daniel Floret

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Correspondence to Etienne Javouhey.

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Conflict of interest: E. Javouhey, no conflict; N. Richard, no conflict; D. Stamm, no conflict; D. Floret, no conflict.

This work was accepted for a poster presentation at the 5th World Congress on Pediatric Critical Care, Geneva, June 2007 and at the 25th annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Porto, May 2007.

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Javouhey, E., Richard, N., Stamm, D. et al. Lumbar drainage as treatment of refractory intracranial hypertension in bacterial meningitis. Intensive Care Med 34, 1166–1167 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-008-0996-9

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