Volume 26, Issue 130, December 2022

External cavitary drainage catheter for large cerebralabscess in high-risk patients: Novel technique

Atharva Sarode¹, Sandeep W Iratwar², Ashishkumar Jha³, Paresh Korde⁴

¹MBBS Student, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi (M), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Professor and HOD, Department of Neurosurgery, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi (M), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
³Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi (M), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
⁴Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi (M), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

The intracranial abscess is a devastating pathology that the neurosurgical community continues to face in terms of morbidity and overall prognosis despite the advances in diagnosis and outcome. Management of brain abscess is amalgamation of medical and surgical therapies. Currently, craniectomy or craniotomy with excision of abscess and burr hole aspiration of pus are the two surgical therapeutic options available for the management of brain abscess. Here we present a new therapeutic solution for the management of brain abscess in the form of burr hole aspiration followed by continuous drainage of pus through the external cavitary drain catheter

Keywords: Intracranial abscess, neuro infection, burr hole aspiration, craniotomy, neurosurgery

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms543e2607

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i130/ms543e2607

Published: 20 December 2022