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Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2021 Background: Subdural empyema is a neurosurgical emergency requiring prompt diagnosis and treatment. There is a debate between the benefits and risks of starting early antibiotics prior to surgical drainage as this is purported to reduce the rate of ...
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Subdural empyema caused by Peptostreptococcus sp.: a complication of acute pharyngitis
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2017 Subdural Empyema (ESD) is the collection of purulent fluid that develops between the exterior “dura mater” layer and the middle “arachnoid mater” layer that covers the brain. ESD can be caused by a primary infection located in the paranasal sinuses.
Jesús Rojas-Jaimes +3 more
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Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2022 Chronic calcified subdural empyema is an extremely rare complication of ventriculoperitoneal shunt. The authors report two consecutive cases of chronic calcified subdural empyema, which are bilateral for the first one and unilateral right for the second ...
Louncény Fatoumata Barry +6 more
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Turkish archives of pediatrics, 2021 Streptococcus anginosus can be frequently isolated from brain abscesses, but is a rare cause of the liver, lung, and deep tissue abscesses. In this report, we present a patient with subdural empyema, brain abscess, and superior sagittal cerebral venous ...
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Romanian Neurosurgery, 2021 Introduction: Cerebral infections (frontoparietal extradural and subdural empyema) following a dental abscess and multiple sinusitis is a rare and potentially devastating entity even in the era of modern diagnosis and treatment.
D. Balasa, A. Tunas, A. Stan
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Acute subdural empyema in the young COVID-19 patient- A case report
Bangladesh Journal of Neurosurgery, 2021 Acute subdural empyema is a surgical emergency. It is life threatening for the patient. It has to be evacuated as soon it is diagnosed. But subdural empyema in a COVID 19 patient is uncommon. Its management put the surgical team to a new dilemma.
Kaisar Haroon +6 more
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Subdural empyema, retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal space abscess: Unusual complications of chronic otitis media [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2012 Introduction. Otitic complications arise from expansion of the middle ear infection. Subdural empyema is a rare otitic complication, and both retropharyngeal and parapharyngeal abscesses have been described in just a few cases. Case report.
Erdevički Ljiljana +4 more
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Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2012 Tuberculous brain abscess and subdural empyema are extremely rare manifestations of central nervous system tuberculosis. Here, we report a case of an 11-year-old immunocompetent child who developed temporal lobe abscess and subdural empyema following ...
B Vijayakumar, K Sarin, Girija Mohan
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Streptococcus equi subsp. equi meningitis, septicemia and subdural empyema in a child
IDCases, 2020 Highlights • Streptococcus equi subsp. equi is a rare cause of meningitis in human hosts.• Infection may lead to important suppurative complications such as subdural empyema.• Infection often follows reported contact with horses.• Outcome is often poor ...
P. Torpiano, Nina Nestorova, C. Vella
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Empiema subdural a gemella morbillorum como complicação de sinusite aguda.
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2011 Subdural empyema is a life-threatening infection that may complicate acute sinusitis. The authors report the case of a previously healthy 10 year-old girl who presented with subdural empyema due to Gemella morbillorum after an untreated maxillary ...
Leonor Reis Boto +6 more
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