63. Cerebellar Abscess in Children

Enterococcus avium cerebellar abscess.

Bi-Lateral Cerebellar Abscess

Casks of cerebellar abscess are so rare in the wards of the General Hospital that I need make no excuse for presenting this one to you. Several other interesting features in the progress and history of the disease make it particularly worthy of record. Alice Nona, a Singhalese girl of 8 years of age, was admitted into one of my wards on the 17th of January last, in a ^emi-conscious state, with ...

A Case of Cerebellar Abscess.

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[Liver abscess in children].

A case of solitary hepatic abscess in an apparently normal 5-year old infant is described. The symptoms in this patient were generally nonspecific and the child were erroneously operated with a presumptive diagnosis of acute appendicitis. Subsequently, because of persistence of isolated abdominal signs, abdominal ultrasonography were performed, and an abscess of the right hepatic lobe was evide...

Cerebellar abscess. A review of 47 cases.

Forty-seven cases of cerebellar abscess have been reviewed, 93% of which were secondary to otogenic disease. There has been little change in the annual incidence during the period of time under review. The overall mortality was 41%, but with successive decades the mortality has increased. Three factors appear to be of importance in determining survival: the patient's ability to control his infe...