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Brain Abscess
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Mucormycosis is a rare life-threatening fungal infection occurring primarily in patients with diabetics or immunocompromised patients. The authors report a case of mucormycosis in a patient with diabetes complicated by bacterial brain abscess. The bacteria cultured from the abscess were Staphylococc...
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PMID: 20861715
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Neurological Surgery (38)11 2010
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We should keep in mind that high MET uptake is frequently observed in nontumorous brain lesions. Although differentiation from tumorous lesions is usually possible by laboratory and morphological examinations, nontumorous lesions should be included in the differential diagnosis when encountering pat...
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PMID: 21081810
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Tropical Doctor (40)3 2010
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Infantile meningitis is a clinical diagnosis. However, suspicion of its complications may warrant further investigations; and transfrontanelle ultrasound is a reliable and cheap way to evaluate the usefulness of ultrasonography in diagnosing the complications of infantile meningitis. This is a retro...
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PMID: 20555051
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Zhongguo ji sheng chong xue yu ji sheng chong bing za zhi = Chinese journal of parasitology & parasitic diseases (28)3 2010
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The Lancet (375)9730 2010
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Brainstem lesions can be classified as focal or diffuse. Magnetic resonance imaging is the most suitable imaging modality for evaluating these lesions. As a rule, focal lesions are not large and have well-defined margins. Causes include tumors, vascular malformations, demyelinating diseases, brain a...
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PMID: 20483392
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Medicina Clínica (134)13 2010
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We describe the successful management of a case of advanced AIDS with disseminated Nocardial infection due to N. asteroides. Nocardial infection needs to be suspected in a patient with HIV infection when there is chest radiographic abnormality and when thrice sputum microscopy for acid fast bacilli...
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PMID: 21117356
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Leukemia Research (34)5 2010
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New England Journal of Medicine (362)14 2010
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Neurocirugia (21)2 2010
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Scedosporium apiospermum is a fungus found in the soil and in contaminated water and commonly cause cutaneous infections and is a rare cause of central nervous system infection. Invasive infection is usually associated with immunosuppresion. The authors present a 73-year-old woman with chronic renal...
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PMID: 20442975
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We report a 3-year-old, previously healthy and immunocompetent boy, with an Absidia brain abscess. He presented with decreased sensorium and status epilepticus. The brain abscess was detected using cranial computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, and the diagnosis was confirmed with pus a...
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PMID: 20354249
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We present a case of TBA in a 23-year-old immunocompetent patient. The patient was given anti-tubercular treatment along with surgical excision. He showed significant improvement in all symptoms after weeks....
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PMID: 21114179
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We report on a 55-year-old male that was admitted due to altered mental status. He had recent sinus drainage and polypectomy, craniotomy with drainage of brain abscess, and ventriculo-peritoneal shunt placement. On admission, imaging studies showed no evidence of shunt dysfunction but did reveal ext...
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PMID: 20022423
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Southern Medical Journal (103)4 2010
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Journal de Radiologie (91)3 Pt 1 2010
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Journal de Radiologie (91)3 Pt 2 2010
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Imaging of water diffusion or diffusion-weighted MR imaging provides physiological information about brain diseases that cannot be obtained from conventional sequences. This technique is very sensitive for the detection of cerebral ischemia from arterial origin and can distinguish cerebral ischemia...
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PMID: 20508569
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We present an emergency anesthetic management of craniotomy for a 22-year-old man with congenital cyanotic heart disease due to brain abscess. Pulmonary blood flow was completely supplied via major arteriopulmonay collatelal artery (MAPCA). This patient complicated with Eisenmenger syndrome, has no...
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PMID: 20169958
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We present an extraordinary case of an auto-aggressive 51-year-old female suffering from a deeply ulcerated wound on the right frontal skull with consecutive brain abscess, caused manually with needles and forceps over a period of 8 months. The clinical course is present ed together with a descripti...
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PMID: 20201127
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Epidemiologie, mikrobiologie, imunologie : casopis Spolecnosti pro epidemiologii a mikrobiologii Ceske lekarske spolecnosti J.E. Purkyne (59)1 2010
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This case report describes a two-step protocol for the identification of the causative agent of nocardiosis in a patient with brain abscess, antibiotic susceptibility testing and etiological treatment after neurosurgery. The patient treated with corticosteroids for pulmonary fibrosis and presenting...
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PMID: 21110444
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We report the first case of brain infection in a middle-aged male in India, where R. mackenziei is not endemic....
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PMID: 20007402
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We report a case of cerebral abscess due to Aggregatibacter aphrophilus and discuss the characteristics of this organism....
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PMID: 20677591
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BMC Infectious Diseases (10)1 2010
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This report presents a case of Kocuria varians brain abscess successfully treated with surgical excision combined with antimicrobial therapy. In addition, Vitek 2 system has been used to identify and differentiate between coagulase-negative staphylococcus....
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PMID: 20423506
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We report a neonate born at 34 weeks gestational age, who at 12 days old presented apnea and seizures. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) grew Candida Albicans, and blood cultures were negative. A head sonogram and head computed tomography scan were negative. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detected m...
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PMID: 20853574
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Multiple ring-enhancing lesions of the brain are one of the most commonly encountered abnormalities on neuroimaging. These can be caused by a variety of infectious, neoplastic, inflammatory or vascular diseases. Distinguishing non-neoplastic causes from neoplastic lesions is extremely important beca...
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PMID: 20935408
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Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive (17)4 2009
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The authors describe a clinical case regarding a young female patient affected by sepsis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), associated to meningoencephalitis and cerebral abscess. The patient had no contact with hospitals in the months prior to illness and had always been hea...
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PMID: 20046106
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Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (7)4 2009
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Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was prescribed, and significant improvement was seen after 2 weeks. The patient was discharged. He was subsequently referred after 3 weeks due to graft-versus-host disease and died of pancytopenia....
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PMID: 20353380
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Neurosurgery (65)6 2009
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We present this report to draw attention to the importance of early recognition and adequate treatment of tuberculous brainstem abscess. CLINICAL PRESENTATION: A 24-year-old man complained of longstanding fever, headache, and weakness followed by development of progressive slurred speech and hemipar...
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PMID: 19934942
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We present a 2 month-old female infant admitted to the hospital with macrocephaly as main clinical sign, irritability, and vomiting. The computer tomography scanning showed a cystic frontal image with contralateral ventricle displacement. Surgical intervention was performed. Purulent material cultur...
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PMID: 20049403
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Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia (22)4 2009
[Brain abscess in a third-level hospital: epidemiology and prognostic factors related to mortality].
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To document the epidemiology, causes, treatment and prognostic factors associated with mortality of patients with brain abscess in a tertiary medical center.
Observational retrospective cohort study of patients with cerebral abscess admitted at a tertiary hospital during 13 years.
The case records o...
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PMID: 20082040
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A 60 year old male patient was admitted to hospital with pulmonary and cerebral abscesses. A percutaneous lung biopsy under CT scanning showed actinomycosis. After 4 weeks antibiotic therapy with ceftriaxone and metronidazole there was an improvement in the pulmonary lesion but new cerebral lesions...
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PMID: 19953049
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Cronobacter spp. (formerly Enterobacter sakazakii) are rare causes of infant septicemia and meningitis, resulting in death in approximately 40% of cases. Since 1958, 120 cases of Cronobacter infection in infants have been reported, an average of fewer than three cases per year worldw...
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PMID: 19875980
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We report a case of amebic brain abscess due to Entamoeba histolytica. The patient was a 31-year-old man who presented with amebic liver abscess. His clinical course deteriorated in spite of proper drainage and treatment. He developed delirium, lethargy and then expired. With a history of heroin add...
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PMID: 20578451
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Of the 73 patients, 12 were lost to follow up and were excluded from the study. Outcomes for the remaining 61 patients were known, and these patients were followed up for at least two years. Adults were more commonly affected by otogenic intracranial abscess than children, with a male preponderance....
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PMID: 19607739
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We report a case of disseminated tuberculosis presenting as mesenteric and cerebral abscess in a HIV case without involving lung and lymph nodes. Bone marrow smears and fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) from mesenteric lesion were positive for acid fast bacilli (AFB) and the diagnosis of tuberc...
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PMID: 20428641
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Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (52)5-6 2009
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A 38-year-old man with a right frontal lobe cyst was treated by endoscopic cystoventriculostomy in 1998. Cyst capsule histology revealed surprisingly an endodermal cyst. The patient was reoperated for cyst expansion by endoscopic re-cystoventriculostomy in 2005. In 2007, the patient suffered from br...
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PMID: 20077366
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Southern Medical Journal (102)9 2009
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We briefly discuss some of the essential, technical aspects of DWI and report various clinical scenarios, which may lead to "positive" DWI findings but are not ischemic strokes. Although the sensitivity of DWI for ischemic stroke is very high, the specificity is not as high, and a "positive" DWI doe...
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PMID: 19668055
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Otology & Neurotology (30)5 2009
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We report the first case of cerebellar abscess secondary to chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) in a 23-year-old lady at 35 weeks of gestation. She was successfully treated by Caesarean section and delivery of a healthy baby, followed by combined neurosurgical and otologic procedures in the same...
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PMID: 19574942
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Laryngoscope (119)8 2009
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Nearly a quarter of pediatric patients with coalescent mastoiditis presented with a simultaneous intracranial complication. There was an increased incidence of anaerobic organisms in patients with intracranial complications compared to those without, indicating the importance of culture and antibiot...
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PMID: 19504555
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Orvosi Hetilap (150)29 2009
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We have to be aware for the development of the mycotic and related infections of endangered patients. Aspergillosis and candidiasis play the most significant role in the involvement of the central nervous system. Actinomycosis and nocardiosis are more sensitive to treatment, so their diagnosis is of...
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PMID: 19581170
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We report the case of a 81-year-old, immunocompromised Patient, admitted to our hospital with new-onset headaches and word-finding difficulties. The MRI of the brain revealed a temporal mass on the left with marginal contrast-enhancement. During the next days Listeria monocytogenes grew in the blood...
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PMID: 19585445
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European Spine Journal (18 Suppl 2)s2 2009
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The objective of our study is to report a rare complication of halo pin insertion associated with an epileptic seizure and brain abscess, and to discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to its management. The treatment of unstable cervical spine injuries with a halo vest is an established pro...
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PMID: 18751739
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Turkish Neurosurgery (19)3 2009
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The incidence of protozoal and helminthic infestations of the central nervous system (CNS) is less than 1%, but these infestations tend to follow a fatal course. They are more common among children, the elderly and immunocompromised individuals. CNS infections due to Entamoeba histolytica have been...
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PMID: 19621290
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Lack of pathological levels of CRP, procalcitonin and white blood cell count does not exclude cerebral abscess in a patient with prolonged fever and without marked neurological deficits. Preceding treatment with immunosuppressive drugs, especially MTX, and failing response to cephalosporins should l...
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PMID: 19472093
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We describe the first case of a phaeohyphomycotic brain abscess in a 5-year-old boy with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) admitted to hospital with seizures. A computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a cerebral abscess and the microbiology study showed a dark, melanin-pigmented fungus, exhibiting...
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PMID: 18815820
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Early collaboration between neurosurgeons, infectious disease specialists, and oral-maxillofacial surgeons will aid the identification and treatment of suspected oral sources of nontraumatic BAs....
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PMID: 19121959
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We report this case to illustrate that severe complications of chronic otitis media still occur in the United States, to stress the importance of clinical suspicion in the postantibiotic era, and to review the literature regarding the most appropriate time to perform the otologic portion of the surg...
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PMID: 19358116
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Seventeen patients with 21 lesions were studied. Of the 21 lesions, 12 were abscess and nine were tumors. By comparing means, only MTT at the ring enhanced area showed statistically significant difference between brain abscess and tumor (p = 0.009, 95% CI = 1.403 to 4.900). When ratio of CBV, CBF an...
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PMID: 19374306
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Neurological Surgery (37)4 2009
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We thought that preexisting intracranial infection, which had extended down into the abdominal cavity through the peritoneal tube of the shunt, coupled with the patient's impaired immune function, had probably caused the abdominal abscess. Abdominal abscess is a potential complication of ventriculop...
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PMID: 19364027
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Child's Nervous System (25)3 2009
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Brain abscess in infants is often extremely serious and overwhelming. Concluding topics will focus on contradictions to expected outcome as well as prognostic prospects for patients with this type of devastating disease....
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PMID: 19057912
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