CT Findings in Patients with Meningitis and Encephalitis

The clinical diagnosis of meningitis and encephalitis is still based primarily on the history, neurologic and psychiatric examination and on bacteriologic and virologic studies of the CSF. What has the introduction of computed tomography contributed to the diagnosis of meningitis and encephalitis? Available reports on the subject (1–7) are both less numerous and less clinically relevant than publications on CT diagnosis of brain tumors, hemorrhage, brain injury and even brain abscess.