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Brain Abscess
Ali Aamer Habib, MBBS;
Tahseen Mozaffar, MBBS
Arch Neurol. 2001;58:1302-1304.
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INTRODUCTION
A brain abscess is a focal suppurative process in the brain parenchyma, complicating paranasal sinusitis, otitis media, cranial trauma, or bacteremia from an extracranial focus of infection. It remains a significant health care problem in developing countries, with mortality rates of up to 21%.1 The advent of modern antibiotic agents and diagnostic imaging techniques has resulted in dramatic improvements in morbidity and mortality in brain abscess. This article will trace the evolution of concepts in the management of brain abscesses through seminal citations in the medical literature.
Though purulent mastoiditis was once the most common culprit, otitis media and paranasal sinusitis are now the most frequent causes of brain abscess. Thus, the usual parencyhymal brain areas involve the temporal, frontal, and parietal lobes. The microbiologic organisms isolated from abscess samples reflect the origin of the suppurative process and gram-positive organisms, particularly streptococci, predominate. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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From the Departments of Medicine (Neurology) (Drs Habib and Mozaffar) and Pathology (Dr Mozaffar), The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
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