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A Patient with a Brain Abscess Presenting as an Acute Stroke
A brain abscess is an enclosed focal infection within the brain that is either initiated by haematogenous seeding or spreads contiguously from oto-sinusitis, local trauma or neurosurgery. We describe the case of a 71-year-old man presenting with acute confusion and unilateral neurology in the absenc...
Autores principales: | Matthews, Thomas, Keegan, Cathy, McDonnell, David, Loughman, Peter, Mirbalouchzehi, Mohammad Amin, Veerasamy, Kevin, Colwell, Niall S. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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SMC Media Srl
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10084803/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37051476 http://dx.doi.org/10.12890/2023_003774 |
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