Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children

A 13-year-old boy with medically intractable sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in the frontal region was treated using percutaneous tapping. Drainage of pus measuring 7 ml yielded excellent postoperative course without cosmetic disadvantage on the forehead. Percutaneous tapping is cons...

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Autores principales: Miyabe, Rumi, Niida, Mami, Obonai, Toshio, Aoki, Nobuhiko, Okada, Takaharu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25624941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.147599
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author Miyabe, Rumi
Niida, Mami
Obonai, Toshio
Aoki, Nobuhiko
Okada, Takaharu
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description A 13-year-old boy with medically intractable sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in the frontal region was treated using percutaneous tapping. Drainage of pus measuring 7 ml yielded excellent postoperative course without cosmetic disadvantage on the forehead. Percutaneous tapping is considered to be the ideal treatment because of minimal invasiveness and cosmetic aspects of the wound.
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spelling pubmed-43025582015-01-26 Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children Miyabe, Rumi Niida, Mami Obonai, Toshio Aoki, Nobuhiko Okada, Takaharu J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report A 13-year-old boy with medically intractable sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in the frontal region was treated using percutaneous tapping. Drainage of pus measuring 7 ml yielded excellent postoperative course without cosmetic disadvantage on the forehead. Percutaneous tapping is considered to be the ideal treatment because of minimal invasiveness and cosmetic aspects of the wound. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4302558/ /pubmed/25624941 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.147599 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Miyabe, Rumi
Niida, Mami
Obonai, Toshio
Aoki, Nobuhiko
Okada, Takaharu
Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
title Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
title_full Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
title_fullStr Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
title_full_unstemmed Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
title_short Percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
title_sort percutaneous tapping for the treatment of sinusitis-related intracranial epidural abscess in children
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25624941
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.147599
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