Clinical features and outcome of 83 adult patients with brain abscess

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 379-382

  Faraji Rad, Mohammad ^a,b   Samini, Fariborz ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adults; Aspiration type operation; Brain abscess; Brain CT scan; Brain MRI

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOIDITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL BASE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547408382     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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