Eosinophilic meningitis - an immunophenotyping recording of a very rare clinical entity: Brief Report

Abstract

A very rare clinical entity, so-called eosinophilic meningitis, classified by prevalence of eosinophils in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), with the presence of pleiocytosis, has been recorded in our laboratory four times only in the last 24 years. A low glucose level, elevation of total protein and lactic acid in CSF were detected in all the clinical cases.

Keywords

• Cerebrospinal fluid
• meningitis