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Cerebral abscess

Cerebral Abscess
Central Nervous System Infections | Neuro-imaging

Cerebral Abscess

Byepsuadmin August 21, 2014June 16, 2015

The scans shown are from two immunocompromised patients who presented with high fever and recurrent seizures. The contrast cranial CT of the first patient shows that the patient had a rim-enhancing lesion at the left basal ganglia (Figure 1). A set of cranial MRIs of the second patient also showed multiple contrast enhancing lesions in the…

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