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CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS 

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Bacterial infections
Spinal cord with compression due to subdural empyema		Abscess rupturing into ventricle
Brain abscess with mass effect producing uncal herniation		Figure of normal brain
Pneumococcal infection with gram stain of CSF cells and bacteria		Epidural abscess by CT
Intracellular organisms		Subdural empyema
Brain abscess pathogenesis		Figure showing epidural, subdural, and menengial infection around the spinal cord
Subdural or epidermal empyema (with meningeal enhancement)		Cervical epidural abscess -- MRI
MRI -- Cerebritis		Multiple brain abscesses in a patient with diabetes -- MRI
Early abscess

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                                              Last updated:  10/05/2002                                                          © 2000-2002 John Rose, MD  University of Utah School of Medicine