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Adult brain abscess associated with patent foramen ovale: a case report

Brain abscess results from local or metastatic septic spread to the brain. The primary infectious site is often undetected, more commonly so when it is distant. Unlike pediatric congenital heart disease, minor intracardiac right-to-left shunting due to patent foramen ovale has not been appreciated a...

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Autores principales: Stathopoulos, Georgios T, Mandila, Christina G, Koukoulitsios, Georgios V, Katsarelis, Nikodimos G, Pedonomos, Michel, Karabinis, Andreas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2018709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17718904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-68