Thalamic bacterial abscess presenting with hemiparesis and expressive aphasia

Brain abscesses are relative rare in the developing world, with an incidence of 2% of all space occupying lesions. Deep-seated abscesses such as thalamic and basal ganglia abscesses are much rarer than abscesses in other locations of the brain, comprising 1.3–6% of all brain abscesses. These abscess...

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Autores principales: Hernandez Jimenez, Jarelys M., Vahdat, Kelia, Serrano Santiago, Ivan A., Morales Hernandez, Maria del Mar, Isache, Carmen L., Sands, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30101064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00417
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Sumario:Brain abscesses are relative rare in the developing world, with an incidence of 2% of all space occupying lesions. Deep-seated abscesses such as thalamic and basal ganglia abscesses are much rarer than abscesses in other locations of the brain, comprising 1.3–6% of all brain abscesses. These abscesses may present with hemiparesis, and subcortical aphasia has only been reported in a few cases throughout the literature. Here we present and discuss a case of thalamic brain abscess caused by S. anginosus that presented with subcortical aphasia.

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