conclusions in conclusion, in spite of usually benign features, chronic otitis media may lead to serious complications such as brain abscess. every effort should be made for microbiological diagnosis of the causative pathogen(s) for appropriate antibiotic treatment. introduction brain abscess is a rare life-threatening focal intracerebral infection. the etiology of brain abscess depends on trau...

background brain abscess is an infrequent complication of meningitis, including cases caused by gram-negative enteric bacteria and klebsiella in neonates. brain abscess in neonates associated with high morbidity and mortality.recently, incidence of the disease is increasing because of increased predisposing factors. patients and method three cases of brain abscess in neonates are reported, 2 of...

introduction: brain abscess in pregnancy is very rare, which mostly progresses to neurological abnormalities. case presentation: the patient is a 24-year-old pregnant woman. she was referred to saitama hospital due to severe headache and nausea on october 2008. brain mri detected a 1.5 cm abscess mass with extensive edema in the right frontal lobe. we performed intensive therapy using some anti...

central nervous system infection is a rare complication of endovascular procedures. we report a 21-year-old woman presented with headache, nausea, vomiting, and right-sided hemiparesis 4 months after endovascular embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformation. investigations led to the diagnosis of multiple brain abscesses. this is the sixth case report of brain abscess following endovascu...

background: brain abscess remains a potentially fatal central nervous system (cns) disease, especially in developing countries. anaerobic abscess is difficult to diagnose because of cumbersome procedures associated with the isolation of anaerobes. materials and methods: this is a hospital-based retrospective microbiological analysis of 430 brain abscess materials (purulent aspirates and/or tiss...

reported here are two cases of delayed postsurgical brucella abscess within the cranium, treated successfully by reoperation and appropriate medical therapy. both patients had an occupational exposure to the pathogenic organism. systemic symptoms of brucellosis became manifest postoperatively in case i and were present in case ii long before operation. the diagnosis was confirmed by serology an...

Pyogenic brain abscess are one of the commonest intracranial pathology that is encountered in a rural neurosurgical practice. The surgical treatment for abscess involves burrhole aspiration or excision of the abscess wall. Deep seated brain abscess like the one in basal ganglia are rare and pose clinical, imaging and surgical challenge. CT guided stereotactic aspiration of the brain abscess is ...