title: Ultrasound; a method of brain abscess drainage monitoring.
abstract: Ultrasound guided percutaneous aspiration was performed in fourteen patients with multiple brain abscesses. A bone defect in the skull served as the site of needle insertion and served to sonographically evaluate the abscesses. Antibiotic therapy was administered in all cases. Repeat drainage was required in 5 cases. There were no complications. In 10 patients complete improvement without CNS lesions was achieved. Three patients suffered from headaches and seizures for a period of 6 weeks following the aspiration. One patient with multiple otogenic abscesses died in spite of multiple efforts to drain the abscesses. Our results demonstrate sonography to be very effective for monitoring brain abscess drainage and follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Medical Academy of Lodz, Poland.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Goraj
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kopytek
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D013396:Suction; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography