title: Brain abscess formation as a CSF shunt complication: a case report.
abstract: The formation of a brain abscess as a result of a cerebrospinal fluid shunt complication is extremely rare in the literature with only 7 cases reported in the last 20 years. We report a patient that developed a brain abscess adjacent to a functioning ventricular catheter in the presence of shunt infection by another pathogen. Clinicians should consider this complication in any shunted patient with clinical features of infection and suggestive changes on imaging however subtle. Expedited standard management for the abscess and the CSF shunt infection, if present, should be employed. Removal of all non-functioning catheters should be encouraged.
authors.affiliation: Section of Neurosurgery, King Khalid National Guards Hospital, PO Box 9515, Jeddah 21423, Saudi Arabia. jamjoomab@ngha.med.sa.
authors.forename: Aimun Ab
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Jamjoom
authors.forename: Abrar R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Waliuddin
authors.forename: Abdulhakim B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Jamjoom