Multiloculated pyogenic brain abscess: Experience in 25 patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1075-1080

  Su, Thung Ming ^a   Lan, Chu Mei ^b   Tsai, Yu Duan ^a   Lee, Tao Chen ^a   Lu, Cheng Hsien ^a   Chang, Wen Neng ^a   Van Dellen, James ^c   Haines, Stephen J ^c   Grossman, Robert G ^c   Kaye, Andrew H ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Chang Gung Memorial Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Aspiration; Excision; Multiloculated brain abscess

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0344490380     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/neurosurgery/52.5.1075     Document Type: Article

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