Clinical Analysis of Brain Abscess.
- Author:
Ki Young JUNG
1
;
Young Jin LIM
;
Tae Sung KIM
;
Gook Ki KIM
;
Bong Arm RHEE
;
Won LEEM
Author Information
1. Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Kyunghee University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Brain abcess;
Drainage;
Aspiration;
Excision
- MeSH:
Abscess;
Anti-Bacterial Agents;
Bacteroides;
Brain Abscess*;
Brain*;
Cerebellum;
Diagnosis;
Drainage;
Ear;
Female;
Headache;
Humans;
Male;
Nausea;
Neurologic Manifestations;
Nose;
Proteus;
Rabeprazole;
Respiratory Tract Infections
- From:Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
1992;21(8):977-982
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
The author reviews 28 cases of brain anscess treated in Kyung Hee University over 13 years from January 1979 to December 1991. The patients consisted of 21 males and 7 females with predominance of 2nd and sixth decade. The commonest causes were ear and nose origin and respiratory tract infection. Common symptoms of the patients were headache and focal neurologic deficit which were followed nausea and mental disturbance and elevated WBC in peripheral blood and ESR also. The frequent location were parietal, temporal, frontal and cerebellum in order. As oon as the provizional diagnosis of brain abscess was made, antibiotics were started. Sterile cultures were obtained in 57% of abscess, common pathogen were proteus in aerobic culture and bacteroides in anaerobic culture in this study. In according to operative methods, drainange and aspiration had some recurrent cases, but excision had no recurrent cases. Excision was the best method in brain abscess which were large size, well capsulated and superficial location.
