Bilateral frontal epidural abscess

Bilateral frontal epidural abscess.

DESCRIPTION A 19-year-old male with periorbital painful swelling, headache and vomiting was admitted to our clinic. Because of the diagnosis of sinusitis he had received medical treatment in another center two months before, consisting of antibiotics and analgesics. However as a result of valid persistence of the patients' complaints, brain CT and MR imaging were required; showing bilateral epi...

Endonasal endoscopic drainage of frontal lobe epidural abscess.

Panspinal Epidural Abscess

A 41-year-old man with recent intravenous drug use presented with 2 weeks of progressively worsening neck and low back pain, four days of bilateral upper and lower extremity weakness, and urinary retention. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a T2/STIR hyperintense posterior epidural collection, suggestive of a spinal epidural abscess (SEA), extending throughout the epidural space of the ...

Epidural Post - Trauma Abscess

Epidural abscess is a rare form of spinal infection, with serious complications and high mortality rate. Described by Morgagni in 1761, and defined as a clinical entity by Bergamaschi in 1820, epidural abscess had an invariably fatal evolution before the advent of antibiotics apud Browder and Meyers(1). The first person to suggest a surgical treatment was Barth (1901), to subsequently state tha...

Epidural abscess complicating insertion of epidural catheters.

We present three cases of epidural abscess, all in patients in whom an epidural catheter had been inserted for postoperative pain management. In all three cases the infecting organism was Staphylococcus aureus and two patients had diabetes. The diagnosis was made within 3 days of epidural catheter removal in two cases, but in one the abscess did not present until after the patient had been disc...