Cryptogenic Pontine Abscess Treated With Stereotactic Aspiration: A Case Report

Brainstem abscesses are localized collections of pus or infected material within the brainstem, which can cause inflammation, tissue damage, and compression adjacent structures. This lead to a variety symptoms, including headache, fever, focal neurological deficits, among many others. potentially life-threatening considered be rare, pontine even rarer. Both often caused by spread infection from nearby structures like middle ear, sinuses, mastoid air cells, but they also result distant infectious sites that have bloodstream. Ambiguous clinical presentation delay appropriate care poorer outcomes. We present rare case abscess in 54-year-old male with both undetermined causal origins unclear signs, namely, lack fatigue, chills. will discuss etiologies, diagnosis, treatment cryptogenic brainstem lesions this report.