Cerebellar abscess. A review of 47 cases.
Forty-seven cases of cerebellar abscess have been reviewed, 93% of which were secondary to otogenic disease. There has been little change in the annual incidence during the period of time under review. The overall mortality was 41%, but with successive decades the mortality has increased. Three factors appear to be of importance in determining survival: the patient's ability to control his infection; reduction of the effect of the posterior fossa mass, preferably by complete excision of the abscess under antibiotic cover; and, in the case of otogenic abscess, an adequate radical mastoidectomy with bone removal to the site of attachment of the abscess to the dura mater.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012737:Sex Factors