Brain Abscess

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BRAIN abscesses have consistently taxed the judgment and technical skill of the medical profession. The diagnosis is often difficult, leading at times to an unfortunate delay in operative intervention. Before the advent of present-day antibacterial therapy, early operation performed for a nonencapsulated abscess led almost certainly to the death of the patient. Yet to wait hopefully for encapsulation and reduction in the virulence of the infecting organism meant running a grave risk that the patient would succumb either to rupture of the abscess into the cerebrospinal-fluid pathways or to the effects of increased intracranial pressure secondary to this septic, expanding, . . .

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