Brain abscess: surgical experiences of 162 cases
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Cases of Abscess of the Brain
eyelid giving exit to a quantity of healthy pus. This was followed by marked abatement of sj^mptoms; but three days afterwards another abscess showed itself over the left frontal eminence which was opened, when the bone beneath was found denuded of its periosteum. Under quinine and iron the fever disappeared, and the improvement progressed steadily, when, at the end of a week, the boy began to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2347-8659
DOI: 10.4103/2347-8659.160851