Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis

Chronic marginal periodontitis is a common oral disease, but can in rare cases cause severe intracranial infection. This case illustrates that poor dental status can be life threatening, in particular for immunocompromised patients.

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Autores principales: Pedersen, Torbjørn Østvik, Kråkenes, Jostein, Løes, Sigbjørn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3349
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author Pedersen, Torbjørn Østvik
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spelling pubmed-77525912020-12-23 Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis Pedersen, Torbjørn Østvik Kråkenes, Jostein Løes, Sigbjørn Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Chronic marginal periodontitis is a common oral disease, but can in rare cases cause severe intracranial infection. This case illustrates that poor dental status can be life threatening, in particular for immunocompromised patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7752591/ /pubmed/33364003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3349 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Pedersen, Torbjørn Østvik
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Løes, Sigbjørn
Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
title Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
title_full Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
title_fullStr Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
title_full_unstemmed Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
title_short Multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
title_sort multiple brain abscesses and ventriculitis secondary to chronic periodontitis
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7752591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33364003
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3349
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