Park SY, Suh DW, Park CM, Oh MS, Lee DK. Brain abscess due to odontogenic infection: a case report.
J Korean Assoc Oral Maxillofac Surg 2014;
40:147-51. [PMID:
25045643 PMCID:
PMC4095813 DOI:
10.5125/jkaoms.2014.40.3.147]
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Abstract
In this report, we describe a case of brain abscess due to odontogenic infection. A 53-year-old female who had been suffering from headache and trismus for two weeks visited the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Sun Dental Hospital (Daejeon, Korea). Even after several routine tests, we still could not make a diagnosis. However, after the combined multidisciplinary efforts of oral surgeons and neurosurgeons, the patient was treated for odontogenic infection and made an uneventful recovery. Therefore, patients with infections in the head and neck region showing symptoms such as headache, changes in mental state, nausea, vomiting, seizures, hemiplegia, speech disturbance, and visual disturbance, a brain abscess should be included in the list of differential diagnoses.
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