Rhinogenic cerebral abscesses

The authors present a detailed description of a series of 46 personal cases of rhinogenic cerebral abscesses, diagnosed and treated in the Clinic of Neurosurgery of Bucharest between 1936 and 1979. Of the total number of cerebral abscesses the rhinogenic ones represent 5.67% and 11.70% of the total of adjacent abscesses. The authors make an exhaustive analysis of etiopathogenic, clinical, anatomic and therapeutic aspects of this type of cerebral abscesses. They stress the interest of the multi-locular forms which make up 45.65% of the total number of rhinogenic cerebral abscesses. Finally the results are presented, of the surgical treatment, and the neuropsychical sequelae.