Cerebral abscess

Abstract

During the period 1935 to 1976 a total of 600 patients referred with the diagnosis of intracranial infection were treated at the University Clinic of Neurosurgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen. Two hundred of these patients had a final diagnosis of cerebral abscess as verified at surgery, autopsy or CT-scanning. The present survey tends to take into account current trends on cerebral abscess as described in the papers founding this review.