Brain abscess due to Fusobacterium necrophorum in a patient with convulsion and no signs of meningitis

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 429-432

  Shimohata, Mitsuteru ^a   Naruse, Satoshi ^a,b   Kawasaki, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yumiko ^a   Koyama, Miyako ^a   Ito, Yasushi ^a   Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a Shinrakuen Hospital   (Japan)

^b Midori Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; Convulsion; Fusobacterium necrophorum; Fusobacterium species; Gram negative anaerobic bacillus

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CONVULSION; CRANIOTOMY; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SEIZURES; SULBACTAM; THERAPEUTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864264298     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.52.429     Document Type: Article

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