Current treatment strategies and factors influencing outcome in patients with bacterial brain abscess

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1263-1270

  Takeshita, Mikihiko ^a   Kagawa, M ^a   Izawa, M ^a   Takakura, K ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Infection; Intraventricular rupture of brain abscess; Mortality; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032424699     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010050248     Document Type: Article

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