BRAIN ABSCESS: ASPIRATION, DRAINAGE, OR EXCISION?
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Brain abscess: aspiration, drainage, or excision?
In treating brain abscess we have three primary concerns: saving life, preserving or restoring function, and preventing sequels such as epilepsy and recurrence of infection. Our success with the first of these is accurately expressed by the immediate mortality rate, but information about the last two can only be obtained by long-term follow-up studies. And for statistical assessment larger figu...
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受 稿1985年9月20日 受 理1986年6月23日 Abstract Thirty-eight cases of brain abscess observed from 1959 to 1983 were analyzed. Thirty-seven cases were operated on and 22 cases out of these were treated with aspiration, 14 cases with extra-capsular total excision, and one case with ventricular drainage. The operative mortality and morbidity were compared between the aspiration group and the excision group. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.14.4.308