Case Report

Brain Abscess in Children

Authors: BRUCE D. SNYDER, MD, THOMAS W. FARMER, MD

Abstract

The authors stress the importance of early diagnosis in terms of mortality and residual damage. The patient already unconscious has relatively little chance of survival even when the abscess is drained surgically.

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