Brain abscess in infants and children
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Yusuf ErΕahin; Saffet Mutluer; Elif GΓΌzelbaΔ
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Article
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1994
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Springer
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English
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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