Brain abscess.

From the Department of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (M.C.B., D.B.); Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI (A.R.T.); and the Department of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Institute, Columbia University, New York (G.M.M.). Address reprint requests to Dr. van de Beek at the Department of Neurology, Center of Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 22660, 1100DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or at d.vandebeek@amc.uva.nl.

[1]  Johan Schoeman,et al.  Tuberculous meningitis: more questions, still too few answers , 2013, The Lancet Neurology.

[2]  James M. Mountz,et al.  Efficacy and Safety of Metronidazole for Pulmonary Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis , 2013, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

[3]  M. Ferreyra,et al.  Silent brain abscess in patients with infective endocarditis. , 2013, Mayo Clinic proceedings.

[4]  J. Brennum,et al.  Pyogenic brain abscess, a 15 year survey , 2012, BMC Infectious Diseases.

[5]  Bryan R. Smith,et al.  HIV-associated opportunistic infections of the CNS , 2012, The Lancet Neurology.

[6]  M. Giroud,et al.  Cerebral abscesses in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia: A clinical and microbiological evaluation , 2012, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.

[7]  I. Nagata,et al.  Usefulness of ultrasonography with a burr-hole transducer during surgery through a burr hole. , 2012, Neurologia medico-chirurgica.

[8]  A. van der Ende,et al.  Cerebral abscesses in patients with bacterial meningitis. , 2012, The Journal of infection.

[9]  D. Raoult,et al.  Metagenomic analysis of brain abscesses identifies specific bacterial associations. , 2012, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[10]  J. Zunt,et al.  Tuberculosis of the central nervous system in immunocompromised patients: HIV infection and solid organ transplant recipients. , 2011, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[11]  Zhiguo Lin,et al.  Stereotatic implantation of Ommaya reservoir in the management of brain abscesses , 2011, British journal of neurosurgery.

[12]  P. Narotam,et al.  Brain abscess: management and outcome analysis of a computed tomography era experience with 973 patients. , 2011, World neurosurgery.

[13]  Cheng-Hsien Lu,et al.  Predictors and long-term outcome of seizures after bacterial brain abscess , 2010, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

[14]  J. Fierer,et al.  Meropenem monotherapy is as effective as and safer than imipenem to treat brain abscesses. , 2010, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

[15]  M. Fariñas,et al.  [Brain abscess in a third-level hospital: epidemiology and prognostic factors related to mortality]. , 2009, Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia.

[16]  S. Beltrán,et al.  Brain abscess caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Case report. , 2009, Journal of neurosurgery.

[17]  Daniel B. DiGiulio,et al.  Majority rules? Tallying the microbial census in an abscess by means of molecular methods. , 2009, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[18]  D. Raoult,et al.  The expansion of the microbiological spectrum of brain abscesses with use of multiple 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. , 2009, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[19]  M. Gilbert,et al.  Antiepileptic drugs for preventing seizures in people with brain tumors. , 2008, The Cochrane database of systematic reviews.

[20]  P. Lai,et al.  Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and diffusion-weighted imaging in intracranial cystic mass lesions. , 2007, Surgical neurology.

[21]  J. Ho,et al.  Postneurosurgical Nosocomial Bacterial Brain Abscess in Adults , 2006, Infection.

[22]  A. M. Mishra,et al.  The role of diffusion-weighted imaging in the differential diagnosis of intracranial cystic mass lesions: a report of 147 lesions. , 2006, Surgical neurology.

[23]  A. Colak,et al.  Stereotactic aspiration and antibiotic treatment combined with hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of bacterial brain abscesses. , 2005, Neurosurgery.

[24]  A. Colak,et al.  Stereotactic Aspiration and Antibiotic Treatment Combined with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Management of Bacterial Brain Abscesses , 2005, Neurosurgery.

[25]  E. Thiel,et al.  Improved outcome in central nervous system aspergillosis, using voriconazole treatment. , 2005, Blood.

[26]  J. Baddley,et al.  Fungal brain abscess in transplant recipients: epidemiologic, microbiologic, and clinical features * , 2002, Clinical transplantation.

[27]  T. Maraziotis,et al.  Management of Brain Abscesses with Sequential Intravenous/Oral Antibiotic Therapy , 2000, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

[28]  J. De Louvois, E.M. Brown, R. Bayston, P.D. Lees, I.K.  The rational use of antibiotics in the treatment of brain abscess , 2000 .

[29]  H. Eraksoy,et al.  Stereotactic surgery in the management of brain abscess. , 1999, Surgical neurology.

[30]  T. Starzl,et al.  Brain abscess in solid organ transplant recipients receiving cyclosporine-based immunosuppression. , 1997, Archives of surgery.

[31]  S. Fischer.  Improved Management of Multiple Brain Abscesses: A Combined Surgical and Medical Approach , 1995 .

[32]  R. Britt,et al.  Neuropathological and computerized tomographic findings in experimental brain abscess. , 1981, Journal of neurosurgery.

[33]  D. Norman,et al.  Nonoperative treatment of brain abscesses in selected high-risk patients. , 1980, Journal of neurosurgery.

[34]  J. Russell,et al.  Cerebellar abscess. A review of 47 cases. , 1975, Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry.

[35]  A. Shorr,et al.  Nosocomial bacterial meningitis. , 2010, The New England journal of medicine.

[36]  S. Stapleton,et al.  Retrospective analysis of 49 cases of brain abscess and review of the literature , 2006, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.

[37]  D. Calfee,et al.  Brain abscess. , 2000, Seminars in neurology.

[38]  W. Hauser,et al.  Incidence and prognosis of brain abscess in a defined population: Olmsted County, Minnesota, 1935-1981. , 1991, Neuroepidemiology.