OBJECTIVE The aim of this report was to describe the occurrence of a bacterial brain abscess in a healthy individual, without any predisposing condition. CASE REPORT A thirteen-year old boy was admitted to the Department of Neurosurgery after the onset of vomiting, headache and dizziness. A neurological deficit was detected during the physical examination so urgent magnetic resonance imaging ...

A yeast-like strain was isolated from the brain abscess of a patient diagnosed with astrocytoma. Morphological and molecular analysis on D1/D2 domain in the 26S rRNA gene and internal transcript spacer region of the strain revealed that the strain belonged to the genus Pseudozyma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the isolation of a Pseudozyma strain from brain abscess.

Objective: To identify new factors influencing the onset of intracranial otogenic complications in adults. Study Design: Retrospective cohort Place and Duration Study: Department ENT, Nowshera Medical College, Qazi Complex from 1st October 2019 to 31st 2020. Methodology: One thousand nine hundred cases within age 40-78 years were enrolled. The data before viral pandemic corona virus was compare...

We describe herein the use of MR fluoroscopic guidance in the drainage of abscess cavities. We percutaneously drained 12 brain abscesses in 11 patients. A 0.3T open MR imaging system was used. Sixteen drainages were performed in 12 abscesses. Repeat drainage was needed in three recurrences and one residual lesion. No serious complications were seen. MR fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous brain absc...

By definition, a brain abscess is an intraparenchymal collection of pus. Nocardia shows to have a special tropism for the neural tissue. Solitary abscess represents the most common manifestation in the central nervous system, accounting for 1%-2% of all cerebral abscesses. In this report, we present a case of primary multiple brain abscesses due to Nocardia farcinica in an immune competent pati...

BACKGROUND Despite the advent of modern neurosurgical techniques, new antibiotics, and powerful imaging technologies, brain abscess remains a potentially fatal central nervous system infection. AIM To determine the epidemiological trends, prognostic factors, and outcomes of bacterial brain abscess, to improve the therapeutic strategy for this disease. DESIGN Retrospective hospital-based epi...

Streptococcus intermedius is known to cause periodontitis and pyogenic infections in the brain and liver. Here we report the complete genome sequence of strain TYG1620 (genome size, 2,006,877 bp; GC content, 37.6%; 2,020 predicted open reading frames [ORFs]) isolated from a brain abscess in an infant. Comparative analysis of S. intermedius genome sequences suggested that TYG1620 carries a notab...

Listeria monocytogenes is an uncommon cause of illness in the general population. Meningoencephalitis is the most common central nervous system (CNS) manifestation of listeriosis. However, brain abscess represents 1-10% of all CNS listeriosis. To our knowledge, L. monocytogenes brain abscess in multiple myeloma patients has not been previously reported. Thus we report a 58-year-old male patient...

Radiation-induced necrosis is commonly seen after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), but a post-irradiation brain abscess is rarely encountered and easily overlooked, which may lead to a dismal outcome. We describe two Chinese men with cerebral herniation caused by temporal lobe abscess within a radio-necrotic lesion presenting only with headache and neurological defects. Cranial ...