Brain abscess: Current management

Hernando Alvis Miranda; Sandra Milena Castellar Leones; Mohammed Awad Elzain; Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar

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Brain abscess: Current management

Hernando Alvis Miranda^,, Sandra Milena Castellar Leones, Mohammed Awad Elzain, Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar

Departments of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

1 Departments of Neurosurgery, National Center for Neurological Sciences, Shaab Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan

2 Departments of Neurosurgery, Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia, Hospital Angeles de Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico

Dr. Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Hospital Ángeles de Pedregal Mexico city Mexico mineurocirujano@aol.com

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ABSTRACT

Brain abscess (BA) is defined as a focal infection within the brain parenchyma, which starts as a localized area of cerebritis, which is subsequently converted into a collection of pus within a well?vascularized capsule. BA must be differentiated from parameningeal infections, including epidural abscess and subdural empyema. The BA is a challenge for the neurosurgeon because it is needed good clinical, pharmacological, and surgical skills for providing good clinical outcomes and prognosis to BA patients. Considered an infrequent brain infection, BA could be a devastator entity that easily left the patient into dead. The aim of this work is to review the current concepts regarding epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and management of BA.

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Brain abscess

neuroinfection

neurosurgery

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Brain abscess: Current management

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ABSTRACT

Keywords

Brain abscess

neuroinfection

neurosurgery

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