The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis

Melioidosis is known to cause abscesses in various organs, including the cranium, though less commonly. We present a patient with scalp abscess and subdural empyema that was visible on computed tomography of the brain. The neurosurgical drainage grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. Despite our best effor...

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Main Authors:	Kuan, Yeh Chunn, How, Soon Hin, Ng, Teck Han, Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore Medical Association 2010
Subjects:	RC Internal medicine
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spelling	iium-126832012-02-03T01:15:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/ The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis Kuan, Yeh Chunn How, Soon Hin Ng, Teck Han Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi RC Internal medicine Melioidosis is known to cause abscesses in various organs, including the cranium, though less commonly. We present a patient with scalp abscess and subdural empyema that was visible on computed tomography of the brain. The neurosurgical drainage grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. Despite our best effort to treat the patient using parenteral antibiotics and surgical drainage, the patient did not survive. Singapore Medical Association 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/1/Cranial_melioidosis.pdf Kuan, Yeh Chunn and How, Soon Hin and Ng, Teck Han and Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi (2010) The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis. Singapore Medical Journal, 51 (2). e43-e45. ISSN 0037-5675 http://smj.sma.org.sg/5102/5102cr7.pdf
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description	Melioidosis is known to cause abscesses in various organs, including the cranium, though less commonly. We present a patient with scalp abscess and subdural empyema that was visible on computed tomography of the brain. The neurosurgical drainage grew Burkholderia pseudomallei. Despite our best effort to treat the patient using parenteral antibiotics and surgical drainage, the patient did not survive.
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author	Kuan, Yeh Chunn How, Soon Hin Ng, Teck Han Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
author_facet	Kuan, Yeh Chunn How, Soon Hin Ng, Teck Han Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
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title	The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis
title_short	The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis
title_full	The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis
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title_full_unstemmed	The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis
title_sort	man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis
publisher	Singapore Medical Association
publishDate	2010
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/12683/1/Cranial_melioidosis.pdf
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The man with the boggy head: cranial melioidosis

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