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Brain Abscess

Known as: abscess cerebral, BRAIN, ABSCESS, Brain Abscess [Disease/Finding] 
A circumscribed collection of purulent exudate in the brain, due to bacterial and other infections. The majority are caused by spread of infected… 
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Review
2003
Review
2003
Phaeohyphomycosis of the central nervous system in immunocompetent hosts: report of a case and review of the literature.
Review
1998
Review
1998
Cerebral fungal infections in the immunocompromised host: a literature review and a new pathogen--Chaetomium atrobrunneum: case report.
OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE A case of a cerebral abscess, occurring in a patient who had undergone bone marrow transplant, caused by… 
1997
1997
Risk factor of complications requiring neurosurgical intervention in infants with bacterial meningitis.
Review
1995
Review
1995
Clindamycin and metronidazole.
1994
1994
Severe neurological complications following orthotopic liver transplantation in patients receiving FK 506 and prednisone.
Review
1992
Review
1992
Continual intracavitary administration of amphotericin B as an adjunct in the treatment of aspergillus brain abscess: case report and review of the literature.
Aspergillus brain abscess is often a fatal disease, regardless of the mode of therapy. Most often seen in the compromised host… 
1980
1980
Results of two-stage surgical treatment of tetralogy of Fallot.
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
SODIUM IOTHALAMATE AS AN AID TO DIAGNOSIS OF INTRACRANIAL LESIONS BY COMPUTERISED TRANSVERSE AXIAL SCANNING
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Cholinergic enzymatic activity of cerebrospinal fluid of patients with various neurologic diseases.
1970
1970
A tuberculous abscess of the brain. Case report.
E VEN before the introduction of streptomycin in 1944 for the treatment of tuberculosis, tuberculous abscesses of the brain as… 
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