Forty-four consecutive patients with brain abscesses, aged between 1 month and 16 years, were reviewed. The cause of abscess was meningitis in 36% of the cases, otitis in 27%, head injury in 16%, congenital heart disease in 9%, other in 5%, and undetected in 5%. Thirty patients had a single abscess
Brain abscess in children
β Scribed by A. S. Hegde; N. K. Venkataramana; B. S. Das
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 297 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0256-7040
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