56 cases of brain abscess retrospective analysis of clinical.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 15 56 cases of brain abscess retrospective analysis of clinical Of: Huang Huadong, Yellow can, Zhao state, Tang, central, Fu Huang, Sheng Luo from [Keywords:] brain abscess, diagnosis, treatment Pyogenic brain abscess refers to bacteria invade the brain, causing inflammation of the limitations, followed by the formation of abscess, was the common intracranial infections. Although the incidence of brain abscess decreased year by year, but should lead to health workers attention. our hospital from January 2001 to May 2008 were treated 56 cases of brain abscess, the clinical data of patients now and its treatment were retrospectively analyzed as follows. Materials and Methods 1. General Information 56 patients 40 cases of male and female in 16 cases. Ages 3 to 63 years, mean age 31 years, including children (3 to 13 years in 12 cases, young adults (15 to 58 years in 38 cases, the elderly (59 to 63 years 6 cases. course of 4 days to 2 years. single abscess in 42 cases (75.0%, multiple abscesses in 8 cases (14.2%, and more room abscess in 6 patients (10.7%. temporal lobe abscess in 25 cases (44.6%, 16 cases of frontal lobe abscess (28.6%, parietal lobe abscess in 5 cases (8.9%, 4 cases of cerebellar abscess (7.1%, basal ganglia and occipital lobe abscess in 3 cases (5.4%. otogenic in 20 cases (35.7%, cryptogenic in 18 cases ( 32.1%, 13 cases of blood-borne (23.2%, brain surgery in 3 patients (5.4%, trauma in 2 cases (3.6%. 2. Clinical manifestations Headache 48 (85.7%, vomiting in 23 cases (41.1%, varying degrees of limb movement disorder in 18 cases (32.1%, seizures in 15 cases (26.8%, fever in 8 cases (14.3%, visual changes, hearing loss and the disturbance of consciousness 5 patients (8.9%, ptosis in 2 cases (3.6%. 3. Image data 48 cases of cranial CT examination, which revealed plain + Enhanced class round low density, enhanced ring enhancement in 41 cases, irregular mixed density or enhancement is not typical i