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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1997 The past 20 years have seen major advances in the diagnosis and management of brain abscess, with a corresponding improvement in the survival rates. The advances in radiographic scanning, the availability of new antimicrobials, and the development of novel surgical techniques have all contributed to the decreases in associated morbidity and mortality ...
G E, Mathisen, J P, Johnson
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A rare case of polymicrobial brain abscess involving Actinomyces
Radiology Case Reports, 2021 Brain abscess is a focal intracranial infection that may present as a life-threatening emergency. Brain abscess can present with a wide range of clinical syndromes, and it results in high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Here we describe a rare case of
Abdelrhman Abo-Zed, MD +2 more
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Low-Grade Astrocytoma Associated with Abscess Formation: Case Report and Literature Review
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2008 A rare case of low-grade astrocytoma associated with abscess formation occurred in a 52-year-old man presenting with Broca's aphasia. He underwent craniotomy and tumor removal under the impression of brain tumor with necrotic cystic change.
Tai-Hsin Tsai +13 more
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Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2019 We report on a brain abscess in an immunocompetent man caused by Cladophialophora bantiana, a black mold known to prefer the brain for abscess-formations with a mortality rate up to 65%.
Li-Anne Schweizer +3 more
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Laboratory Animal Research, 2023 Background A brain abscess in human beings is a focal infection of the central nervous system frequently characterized by areas of localized cerebritis and central necrosis surrounded by a well vascularized capsule. A brain abscess, although sporadically
Tohru Kimura
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Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2021 A case of radiation induced delayed brain necrosis associated with bacterial brain abscess is reported. A 50-year-old Japanese man with adenoid cystic carcinoma underwent carbon ion radiotherapy and the cancer disappeared on MRI one year later.
Masanori Kurimoto +4 more
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A Fatal Sinogenic Brain Abscess in Pregnancy: Case Report and Review of Literature
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2017 Cerebral abscess is an extremely rare complication of pregnancy. Among reported cases of pregnancy brain abscess, most patients have shown a good neurologic outcome.
Reza Bahrami, Hossein Safari
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Multiple Brain Abscesses: An Unusual Case [PDF]
Journal of Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022 Brain abscess is a collection of pus with a vascular capsule beginning as a cerebritis at its early stage. The incidence rate of brain abscess is approximately 0.13-0.9 per 100,000 person-year.
Alireza Vakilian +5 more
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Pyogenic Brain Abscess Caused by Peptostreptococcus in a Patient with HIV-1 Infection
Diseases, 2017 In the setting of HIV, cerebral lesions are usually secondary to lymphoma and opportunistic infections; however, in patients with CD4 counts above 200 cells/uL, other pathologies such as pyogenic brain abscess could gain importance.
Jose Armando Gonzales Zamora +1 more
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Brain Metastasis Mimicking Brain Abscess in ALK-Positive Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2019 Brain metastasis frequently develops in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, we report a patient who developed brain metastasis from ALK-positive NSCLC which mimicked brain abscess.
Toshio Sakatani +9 more
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