Nocardial cerebral abscess: Report of three cases and review of the current neurosurgical management

Neurological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-30

  Valarezo, Javier ^a,b   Cohen, José E ^a   Valarezo, Luis ^a   Spektor, Sergey ^a   Shoshan, Yigal ^a   Rosenthal, Guy ^a   Umansky, Felix ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Kiryat Hadassah   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Brain abscess surgery; Craniotomy; Nocardia asteroides

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CILASTATIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; SULFADIAZINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENUCLEATION; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; SIDE EFFECT; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEFOTAXIME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; SULFADIAZINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0037242016     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164103101201076     Document Type: Article

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