IN 1891, Dr. Cemil Topuzlu operated on a brain abscess that originated as a complication of a depression fracture of the cranial inner table. The patient presented with Jacksonian seizures on his left side after a sharp trauma resulting in a 15 cm-long scalp laceration and underlying linear cranial fracture in the right parietal bone. Dr. Topuzlu attributed Jacksonian epilepsy to the fracture i...

Odontogenic origins are rarely implicated in the formation of brain abscesses. The relative paucity of this kind of infection and the difficulty in matching the causative microorganisms of a brain abscess to an odontogenic source can explain the late management of patients. We herein describe a case of a 46-year-old man with a cerebellar abscess that was probably due to an odontogenic infection...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to analyze the clinical features, causative pathogens, neuro-imaging findings, and therapeutic outcomes of bacterial brain abscess in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) following radiotherapy. METHODS NPC patients with bacterial brain abscess were evaluated. Their clinical data were collected over a 22-year period. For comparison, the clinical features, c...

Bacterial brain abscess is still a disease that challenges neurosurgeons in its diagnoses and treatment, in both adults and children because of variations in the microbiological features, and altered immune status (for example, due to HIV infection, treatment with chemotherapy or organ transplantation). The incidence of brain abscesses is ~ 8% of intracranial masses in developing countries, whe...

The diversity of neurological sequelae that may occur after an inflammatory disorder in the brain (brain abscess, encephalitis, or meningitis) provides a range of challenges to the rehabilitation team. The therapist must identify the problems underlying the individual’s movement dysfunctions without the template of the cluster of “typical” problems available with some other ne...

Introduction: Complications of acute sinusitis affecting multiple sites are very uncommon in the antibiotic era. However, a significant proportion of patients (5–40%) suffering from acute sinusitis can have these complications mostly due to the delayed diagnosis of the disease. Patients can have variable presentations according to the site and extent of the infection.   Case Report: A 21-ye...

Invasive intracranial aspergillosis is a rare disease with high morbidity and mortality that occurs most commonly in immunosuppressed patients. However, intracranial Aspergillus infections have also been reported in immunocompetent hosts after brain trauma or neurosurgery. Neurosurgical intervention combined with aggressive antifungal treatment is effective in treating cerebral aspergillus gran...

BACKGROUND Brain abscesses and ischaemic strokes complicate pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs). At risk individuals are poorly recognised. Stroke/abscess risk factors have not been defined. METHODS A cohort study of 323 consecutive individuals with PAVMs (n = 219) and/or the commonly associated condition hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT, n = 305) was performed. Most of t...

We present a unique case of a brain abscess that occurred secondary to a ganglionic hemorrhage in a 64-year-old man. This abscess appeared to be metastatic after septicemia. Aspiration with antibiotics eliminated this infection.

Motivation: In the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), the eponymic term “Brodie abscess” denotes a chronic metaphyseal abscess of a bone, named after Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, a 19thCentury British physician. Now, is “Brian abscess” also a term of the UMLS an abscess named after some Dr. Brian or a misspelled form of the term “Brain Abscess”? Similarly, the two terms “antidiarrheals” (h...