Report for: Brain abscess formation as a CSF shunt complication: a case report

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Title	Brain abscess formation as a CSF shunt complication: a case report
Published in	Cases Journal, January 2009
DOI	10.1186/1757-1626-2-110
Pubmed ID	19183497
Authors	Aimun AB Jamjoom, Abrar R Waliuddin, Abdulhakim B Jamjoom
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.

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Country	Count	As %
Unknown	23	100%

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Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Other	4	17%
Student > Postgraduate	4	17%
Student > Master	4	17%
Researcher	3	13%
Professor > Associate Professor	3	13%
Other	3	13%
Unknown	2	9%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	10	43%
Neuroscience	4	17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	3	13%
Social Sciences	1	4%
Immunology and Microbiology	1	4%
Other	0	0%
Unknown	4	17%

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Brain abscess formation as a CSF shunt complication: a case report

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