The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis
Melioidosis is known to cause abscesses in various organs, including the cranium, though less commonly. We present a patient with scalp abscess and subdural empyema that was visible on computed tomography of the brain. The neurosurgical drainage grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. Despite our best effor...
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| author | Kuan, Yeh Chunn How, Soon Hin Ng, Teck Han Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi |
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| description | Melioidosis is known to cause abscesses in various organs, including the cranium, though less commonly. We present a patient with scalp abscess and subdural empyema that was visible on computed tomography of the brain. The neurosurgical drainage grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. Despite our best effort to treat the patient using parenteral antibiotics and surgical drainage, the patient did not survive. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:126832012-02-03T01:15:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/ The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis Kuan, Yeh Chunn How, Soon Hin Ng, Teck Han Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi RC Internal medicine Melioidosis is known to cause abscesses in various organs, including the cranium, though less commonly. We present a patient with scalp abscess and subdural empyema that was visible on computed tomography of the brain. The neurosurgical drainage grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. Despite our best effort to treat the patient using parenteral antibiotics and surgical drainage, the patient did not survive. Singapore Medical Association 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/1/Cranial_melioidosis.pdf Kuan, Yeh Chunn and How, Soon Hin and Ng, Teck Han and Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi (2010) The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis. Singapore Medical Journal, 51 (2). e43-e45. ISSN 0037-5675 http://smj.sma.org.sg/5102/5102cr7.pdf |
| spellingShingle | RC Internal medicine Kuan, Yeh Chunn How, Soon Hin Ng, Teck Han Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis |
| title | The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis |
| title_full | The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis |
| title_fullStr | The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis |
| title_short | The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis |
| title_sort | man with the boggy head cranial melioidosis |
| topic | RC Internal medicine |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/1/Cranial_melioidosis.pdf |
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