Treatment of Brain Abscess Associated With Ventricular Rupture: —Three Case Reports—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 630-636

  Isono, Mitsuo ^a   Wakabayashi, Yukihiro ^a   Nakano, Toshihisa ^a   Fujiki, Minoru ^a   Mori, Teruaki ^a   Hori, Shigeaki ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

antibiotics; brain abscess; ventricle irrigation; ventricular rupture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MALE; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TREPHINING;

EID: 0030815612     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.37.630     Document Type: Article

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