Despite advances in imaging techniques, laboratory diagnostics, surgical interventions, and antimicrobial treatment, brain abscess remains a challenging clinical problem with substantial case fatality ...

Brain abscesses represent a serious focal infection of the brain parenchyma that may arise from a variety of sources including contiguous spread from otorhinogenic or odontogenic infections, ...

Brain abscesses are deadly, yet their symptoms—like headache and vomiting—are often mistaken for less serious conditions. Diagnosis typically requires advanced imaging like CT or MRI scans, which are ...

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Brain abscess (BA) is a serious medical condition caused by localized infections in the brain. Usually, patients with BA have infection in the parenchyma—brain tissue that performs much of the organ’s ...

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A total of 102 patients were diagnosed with brain abscess between January 1994 and April 2009. Median age was 47 years and 65% were male. This yields an estimated incidence of 0,4/100.000/year. Table ...

Historically, brain abscesses were usually caused by contiguous infection following sinusitis or middle-ear infection and carried a poor prognosis, [1,2] but as a result of improved neuro-imaging, ...