Neutrophilic pleocytosis in cerebrospinal fluid: adult-onset Still's disease.

Intern Med

Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Division of Rheumatology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey.

Published: October 2003

We describe a unique patient whose clinical and laboratory findings fulfill diagnostic criteria of adult onset Still's disease and at the same time, this case was complicated by aseptic meningitis with neutrophilic pleocytosis in cerebrospinal fluid, as well as sensorineural hearing loss. The symptoms of the patient improved greatly with prednisolone therapy. Some studies in the literature suggest that this disease may lead to aseptic meningitis with neutrophilic pleocytosis.

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