Subdural Empyema Caused by Hematogenous Dissemination from an Abscess in Thigh to a Preexisting Chronic Subdural Hematoma: —Case Report—

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 743-745

  Kawamoto, Shunsuke ^a   Nagata, Kazuya ^a   Mochizuki, Yubuhito ^a   Hara, Takayuki ^a   Abe, Tadashi ^a   Sashida, Jun ^a  

^a Showa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

chronic subdural hematoma; deoxyribonucleic acid finger printing; hematogenous dissemination; subdural empyema

Indexed keywords

CEFPIROME; HABEKACIN; PHENYTOIN;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEVER; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ABSCESS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EMPYEMA, SUBDURAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THIGH;

EID: 0031741826     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.38.743     Document Type: Article

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