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- Title
TRAVMAYA BAĞLI OLUŞAN İNTRASEREBRALVE İNTRAORBİTAL APSENİN ENDOSKOPİK TEDAVİSİ.
- Authors
ULU, Şahin; Karavelioğlu, Ergün; Ayçiçek, Abdullah; Eser, Olcay; Kaçar, Emre; Bucak, Abdulkadir
- Abstract
Brain abscess is a serious and life-threatening disease. Severe neurological deficits may remain in the survived cases. Brain absceses are often observed after ear infections. Other than this, they also occur after head trauma (with comminuted fracture, penetrating wounds), purulent metastases of lung or other organs and skull osteomyelitis. Although brain absceses after head trauma are rare, in this case report a patient who had a history of surgical intervention due to severe brain trauma 20years ago, admitted with increasing visual impairment and seizures without any infection focus and then diagnosed with an abscess in orbital cavity and cranial region was presented.
- Subjects
COMPLICATIONS of brain injuries; PARANASAL sinus surgery; INJURY complications; ORBITAL diseases; BRAIN abscess; SEIZURES (Medicine); ENDOSCOPY; SPASMS; VISION disorders; HEAD injuries; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Duzce Medical Journal, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1307-671X
- Publication type
Article