Suppurative intracranial infection, including meningitis, intracranial abscess, subdural empyema, epidural abscess, cavernous sinus thrombosis, and thrombosis of other dural sinuses, are uncommon ...

Subdural empyema is a rare condition with a quoted incidence of 0.2–1.2/10 000 hospital admissions.1 2 This has been reported in literature in association with otitis media and sinusitis.3 The authors ...

Neutrophils with numerous gram-negative rods and concomitant Gram-positive coccobacillus were observed in the purulent material (Figure 3B). We experienced a fulminant subdural empyema caused by ...

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Seven patients with subdural empyema were initially treated by antibiotics without surgery. Six have recovered without sequelae. One required delayed surgery and has recovered with epilepsy. The ...

It has long been believed that spinal subdural empyemas (SDEs) with neurological symptoms result in death if ... Given patient’s acute sepsis, haemodynamic instability, and extent of empyema, we ...

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Method We report a case of an infant with VZV infection who developed meningeococcal sepsi, meningeococcal meningitis, VZV encephalitis and subdural empyema. Results A 3 month, previously well and ...

There were a total of 5 (6.25%) infections, 3 of which were ipsilateral subdural empyema (SDE) and included and 2 of which were excluded (scalp infection and contralateral infection). The infection ...

Copyright: © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Paradural suppurations (epidural and subdural empyema) are serious infections of the CNS that frequently ...