Hemispheric brain abscess: A review of 46 cases

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-129

  Dakurah, T K ^a,b   Iddrissu, M ^a,b   Wepeba, G ^a,b   Nuamah, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Brain abscess; Burr hole drainage; C.T. scan; Corticosteroids; Local anasthesia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; GHANA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747052339     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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