A 24-year-old man presented with mental change, fever, abdominal pain, tenderness and palpable mass on the lower abdomen. He was a non-Korean engineer and did not accompany a legal guardian, so medical history taking was difficult due to his mental status. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed multiple rim-enhanced lesions of the brain, and abdominal computed tomography showed huge paraspinal abscess. Chest X-ray and computed tomography showed poorly defined nodular opacities. We initially thought that this patient was infected with toxoplasmosis with typical cerebral image finding and immunoglobulin laboratory finding of cerebrospinal fluid and serum study. The abdominal abscess was confirmed as tuberculosis through the pathologic finding of caseous necrosis. We used anti-tuberculosis medication and anti-toxoplasmosis medication for almost 4 months, and then his clinical state and radiological findings were considerably improved.
Abdomen ; Abdominal Abscess ; Abdominal Pain ; Abscess ; Brain ; Fever ; Humans ; Immunoglobulins ; Legal Guardians ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Medical History Taking ; Necrosis ; Thorax ; Toxoplasmosis ; Toxoplasmosis, Cerebral ; Tuberculosis ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Brain Abscess* ; Brain* ; Catheters*

No abstract available.
Brain Abscess* ; Brain*

No abstract available.
Brain Abscess* ; Brain*

No abstract available.
Brain Abscess* ; Brain* ; Salmonella*

A case of infantile multiloculated brain abscess diagnosed by computerized tomography and enhancement with intravenous contrast material is introduced. In this case, patient was successfully treated by repeated needle aspiration and lesions were observed by means of serial computerized tomography and intracapsular microbarium injection. The abscess cavities were punctured stereotaxically on measuring the lesions of the plain skull film with consequence C.A.T scan.
Abscess ; Brain Abscess* ; Brain* ; Humans ; Needles* ; Skull

Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations(PAVM) are uncommon diseases. Brain abscesses could be a rare and devastating complication of PAVM. Central nervous complaints may be the first manifestations of PAVM. We report a case of PAVM presented by brain abscess, which was treated by craniotomy.
Abscess ; Arteriovenous Fistula* ; Brain Abscess* ; Brain* ; Craniotomy

PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to correlate the CT and histopathologic findings of abscess wall. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The CT findings of 12 patients with pathologically proven brain abscess were retrospectively analyzed with particular attention to the thickness, smoothness and uniformity of enhancing abscess wall, and the results were correlated with histopathologic findings. RESULTS: Two patients with acute cerebritis showed an isodense ring on non-contrast CT(NCCT), but a true capsule formation could not be identified at pathologic examination. Six other patients with isodense ring on NCCT consisted of early to late cerebritis(3 cases), late cerebritis to early capsule(1 case), early capsule(1 case), and late capsule(1 case). These 6 cases showed ring enhancement on contrast enhanced CT(CECT) and true capsule formation pathologically. There was no isodense ring on NCCT in the remaining four patients. They consisted of early to late cerebritis(2 cases), late cerebritis(1 case), and late cerebritis to early capsule formation(1 case). These also showed ring enhancement on CECT and true capsule formation pathologically. CONCLUSION: We found that it is difficult to predict the exact stage of brain abscess on preoperative CT findings. It is suggested that clinical findings and sequential dynamic CT may provide more detailed informations for evaluation of abscess staging.
Abscess ; Brain Abscess* ; Brain* ; Humans ; Retrospective Studies

A brain abscess developing at the site of a preceding intracerebral hemorrhage is a rare finding. We report here on a rare case of a brain abscess that developed at the site of an intracerebral hemorrhage after a systemic infection.
Brain ; Brain Abscess ; Cerebral Hemorrhage

A retrospective study was carried out on 120 patients with brain abscess treated at Cho Ray Hospital from Oct 2000 to Feb 2003. 91% patients were hospitalized on emergency. The patients were diagnosed easily and quickly brain abscess by CT. 80 patients (70.8%) underwent emergency surgeries and the commonest applied technique (73.3%) was punction and pus drainage. Antibiotic were indicated suitably for patients, corticoids were prescribed for 31.6% patients with severe brain edema, antiepileptic drugs were given for patients with convulsions. Twelve patients (10%) died because of too late hospitalizations with general complications and/or brain hernia. Patients with brain abscess were commonly arrived late; the majority of them were admitted on emergency. Although having CT for accurate diagnosis and surgery and new antibiotic generations, the mortality rate is still high
Brain Abscess ; Therapeutics ; Surgery