Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use

A 43-year-old healthy female with no significant medical problems except for recently diagnosed pelvic inflammatory disease presented to our hospital with acute onset, severe head and neck pain. Brain imaging revealed a rim-enhancing lesion consistent with an abscess. The patient underwent successfu...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Simran, Kasule, Sabirah N., Seville, Maria Teresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8861415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01454
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description A 43-year-old healthy female with no significant medical problems except for recently diagnosed pelvic inflammatory disease presented to our hospital with acute onset, severe head and neck pain. Brain imaging revealed a rim-enhancing lesion consistent with an abscess. The patient underwent successful surgical removal of the abscess and its capsule. Intraoperative cultures grew Streptococcus intermedius and she was discharged with a plan for four weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone.
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spelling pubmed-88614152022-03-02 Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use Gupta, Simran Kasule, Sabirah N. Seville, Maria Teresa IDCases Case Report A 43-year-old healthy female with no significant medical problems except for recently diagnosed pelvic inflammatory disease presented to our hospital with acute onset, severe head and neck pain. Brain imaging revealed a rim-enhancing lesion consistent with an abscess. The patient underwent successful surgical removal of the abscess and its capsule. Intraoperative cultures grew Streptococcus intermedius and she was discharged with a plan for four weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone. Elsevier 2022-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8861415/ /pubmed/35242560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01454 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
title Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
title_full Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
title_fullStr Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
title_full_unstemmed Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
title_short Cerebral abscess with Streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
title_sort cerebral abscess with streptococcus intermedius as a complication of pelvic inflammatory disease in the setting of intrauterine device use
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8861415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01454
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