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Chapter 19 - Secondary Abscess Formation in Primary Brain Lesions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Robert Laureno
Robert Laureno
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, and brain tumors can become infected. The development of abscess in a brain lesion is typically delayed after the stroke presentation. Often septicemia due to an infected indwelling urinary bladder catheter is the source. Sometimes infection can develop in a previously asymptomatic brain tumor of any type.

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Brain abscessInfected brain tumorInfected cerebral infarctionInfected cerebral hemorrhage
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Insights into Clinical Neurology , pp. 93 - 96
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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