Subdural empyema--clinical experiences.
The authors present the experiences from their clinic with diagnostic and treating of subdural empyema. In the years 1953-1991 altogether 5 patients were treated with this diagnosis in the Clinic of Neurosurgery in Olomouc. Nobody of the patient died. There was possible to observe in all these patients before operation symptoms of meningeal irritation, febrilities and in 4 patients the neurologic focal symptomatology. The authors arrive to the conclusion, that the most convenient operation approach is craniotomy, which must be preferred to smaller surgical approaches. One part of the intracranial operation must be sanation of the primary inflammation leading to arising of subdural empyema. The regular postoperation control of the patient by means of computed tomography renders possible the timely detection of relapse and leads to timely surgical intervention.
Neurosurgical Clinic, Medical Faculty, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003399:Craniotomy; D004569:Electroencephalography; D013354:Empyema, Subdural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed