Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Large abscess in the inferior parietal region secondary to fracture of the skuU. The thickcapsule of the abscess can be seen. In the case of an infant seen with Poore at St. Marys Hospital, afall upon the left parietal bone, causing a laceration of the scalp andan indentation of the soft bone, was followed within two weeks by thedevelopment of right hemiplegia with hemianopsia. At the autopsy alarge cerebral abscess was found beneath the site of the injury within 549 550 ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN. the white matter of the brain, the
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Large abscess in the inferior parietal region secondary to fracture of the skuU. The thickcapsule of the abscess can be seen. In the case of an infant seen with Poore at St. Marys Hospital, afall upon the left parietal bone, causing a laceration of the scalp andan indentation of the soft bone, was followed within two weeks by thedevelopment of right hemiplegia with hemianopsia. At the autopsy alarge cerebral abscess was found beneath the site of the injury within 549 550 ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN. the white matter of the brain, there being no apparent affection of thecortex for one-fourth of an inch above the abscess. The abscess hada thick capsule and was well defined. (See Fig. 238.) An attemptwas made to open it, but the operation had to be suspended on accountof the collapse of the patient. Fig. Abscess of the temporal lobe after otitis media. (Larkin.) In a second case, seen with McBurney at Roosevelt Hospital, acompound fracture of the superior portion of the left parietal bone,which had healed, had been followed three months later by the gradualdevelopment of paralysis of the right leg. At the operation a largeabscess was found involving the superior parietal lobule and adjacentportion of the posterior central convolution. In the midst of theabscess a considerable piece of bone was found, which evidently hadbeen driven in at the time of the fracture. The operation wassuccessful. The patient recovered and gradually regained powerin the leg. PLATE XXIV
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