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Indian Journal of Neurosurgery 2015; 04(03): 164-172
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1559804
Illustrated Case Review
Neurological Surgeons' Society of India

Gas-Forming Intracerebral Abscess with Pediatric Parafalcine Subdural Empyema with Review of Literature

Sharad Pandey
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
,
Vivek Sharma
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
,
Kulwant Singh
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
,
Anurag Sahu
1   Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Sunder Lal Hospital, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
,
Deepa Pandey
2   Department of Clinical Microbiology, DLW, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
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10 April 2015

26 June 2015

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24 November 2015 (online)

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Abstract

A brain abscess is a focal, intracerebral infection that begins as a localized area of cerebritis and develops into a collection of pus surrounded by a well-vascularized capsule. The incidence of brain abscess varies from 1 to 2% of all intracranial space occupying lesions in developed countries to 8% in the developing countries. We reported a case of an 8-year-old girl who presented with gas-forming intracerebral abscess with parafalcine subdural empyema as a complication of bilateral chronic suppurative otitis media with coalescent mastoiditis and reviewed the literature.

Keywords

gas-forming intracerebral abscess - subdural empyema - chronic suppurative otitis media
 

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