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Endoscopic treatment of brain abscess

BACKGROUND: Treatment of brain abscess is still a subject of controversy. The main treatment is surgical, although medical therapy alone can be used for selected cases. The treatment of choice is aspiration, which may be performed with the aid of an endoscope or by freehand technique, with or withou...

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Autores principales: Elmallawany, Mohamed, Ashry, Ahmed, Alsawy, Mohamed F.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7881504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598352
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_800_2020
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description BACKGROUND: Treatment of brain abscess is still a subject of controversy. The main treatment is surgical, although medical therapy alone can be used for selected cases. The treatment of choice is aspiration, which may be performed with the aid of an endoscope or by freehand technique, with or without stereotactic or intraoperative ultrasound guidance. Excision is valuable in some cases. We are reporting our results of endoscopic approach in 12 patients. METHODS: This study included 12 patients of brain abscesses treated between January 2015 and January 2018. All the cases except those with small abscesses (<3.0 cm in diameter) were included in the study. Rigid endoscope was used. Follow-up CT scan was done in all cases within 7 and 30 days after surgery. Follow-up periods ranged between 3 and 6 months. RESULTS: There were 11 patients with a history of chronic otitis media and one patient who suffered from congenital cyanotic heart disease. Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) was 5 in one patient, 13 in two cases, and 14–15 in 9 cases. There were one cerebellar, six temporal, and five frontal abscesses. All the patients recovered completely except one who died (GCS 5). There was no procedure-related complication. Hospital stay ranged from 14 to 45 days with an average of 28 days. The endoscopy aided visualization of multiloculations and septation in eight patients which allowed the opening of the septations and complete evacuation. CONCLUSION: Endoscopic aspiration is safe, easy, and represents an effective way of treatment of brain abscess through proper visualization. It can be used for ensuring the complete aspiration of contents, control of any bleeding point, and also for multiloculated abscess to identify and open the septations which may not be possible in stereotactic or any other guided aspirations.
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spelling pubmed-78815042021-02-16 Endoscopic treatment of brain abscess Elmallawany, Mohamed Ashry, Ahmed Alsawy, Mohamed F. Surg Neurol Int Original Article BACKGROUND: Treatment of brain abscess is still a subject of controversy. The main treatment is surgical, although medical therapy alone can be used for selected cases. The treatment of choice is aspiration, which may be performed with the aid of an endoscope or by freehand technique, with or without stereotactic or intraoperative ultrasound guidance. Excision is valuable in some cases. We are reporting our results of endoscopic approach in 12 patients. METHODS: This study included 12 patients of brain abscesses treated between January 2015 and January 2018. All the cases except those with small abscesses (<3.0 cm in diameter) were included in the study. Rigid endoscope was used. Follow-up CT scan was done in all cases within 7 and 30 days after surgery. Follow-up periods ranged between 3 and 6 months. RESULTS: There were 11 patients with a history of chronic otitis media and one patient who suffered from congenital cyanotic heart disease. Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) was 5 in one patient, 13 in two cases, and 14–15 in 9 cases. There were one cerebellar, six temporal, and five frontal abscesses. All the patients recovered completely except one who died (GCS 5). There was no procedure-related complication. Hospital stay ranged from 14 to 45 days with an average of 28 days. The endoscopy aided visualization of multiloculations and septation in eight patients which allowed the opening of the septations and complete evacuation. CONCLUSION: Endoscopic aspiration is safe, easy, and represents an effective way of treatment of brain abscess through proper visualization. It can be used for ensuring the complete aspiration of contents, control of any bleeding point, and also for multiloculated abscess to identify and open the septations which may not be possible in stereotactic or any other guided aspirations. Scientific Scholar 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7881504/ /pubmed/33598352 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_800_2020 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Surgical Neurology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7881504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598352
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_800_2020
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