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Actinomycotic brain abscess successfully treated by burr hole aspiration and short course antimicrobial therapy
A B Jamjoom1, Z A Jamjoom, S S al-Hedaithy
1Division of Neurosurgery, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
British Journal of Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Three cases of brain abscess caused by Actinomyces israelii are reported which were successfully treated by burr hole aspiration and a short course of antibiotics (3-4 weeks). The clinical response of the patients, as well as the serial serum C-reactive protein levels and CT findings were used as a guideline for stopping antimicrobial therapy relatively early.