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Daily Telegraph: Deadly Diagnosis Delay [19mar03]
The inquest has heard Ms Anderson died of an epidural abscess threeweeks after she underwent a caesarean section in Sydney. Dr
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Extractions: Dr Neil McCarthy, visiting medical officer at Warren Hospital near Dubbo, was giving evidence at an inquest into the death of Caroline Anderson, 37, on May 5, 2001. The inquest has heard Ms Anderson died of an epidural abscess three weeks after she underwent a caesarean section in Sydney. Dr McCarthy first consulted Ms Anderson at Warren Hospital on April 24 when she told him she was suffering severe lower back pain. He told her she had "mechanical back pain" and prescribed paracetamol. Dr McCarthy said he did not consider epidural abscess when he examined Ms Anderson because "I understood it to be a rare cause of low back pain". He said he believed it was "most important" to have Ms Anderson reassessed in Dubbo Base Hospital where specialist advice, testing and imaging were available.
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BRAIN OR epidural abscess MDAdvice.com Home Health Library Illnesses/Conditions . General Information. You have any symptoms of a brain or epidural abscess.
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Extractions: MDAdvice.com Home Health Library Illnesses/Conditions DEFINITION A collection of pus caused by a bacterial infection in the brain or the outermost of 3 membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. BODY PARTS INVOLVED Brain; meninges (membranes that cover the brain); skull. SEX OR AGE MOST AFFECTED CAUSES The primary source of bacterial infection that causes a brain or epidural abscess often cannot be found. These 3 sources are the most common: An infection that spreads from an infected skull, such as in osteomyelitis, mastoiditis or sinusitis. An infection that is introduced by a skull injury.
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epidural abscess. A spinal epidural abscess arises when organisms from osteomyelitisand tuberculosis of the vertebral column spread to this space.
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Extractions: SUPPURATIVE INFECTIONS SUBDURAL EMPYEMA SUPPURATIVE MENINGITIS BRAIN ABSCESS ... PRION DISEASES SUPPURATIVE INFECTIONS The brain is protected from bacterial invasion from the environment by the skull, the dura, and the arachnoid membrane, the pia, and the glia limitans, which is a dense mesh of astrocytic processes on the surface of the brain. (Figure 5.1) Consequently, most bacterial infections spread to the brain by the bloodstream. Bacteria can penetrate into the brain from the environment if there is a break in the continuity of these protective layers. Such a discontinuity may be due to congenital defects (encephalocele, meningomyelocele) or may be caused by trauma or a shunt. Bacteria can also spread to the brain from infected adjacent air sinuses, the middle ear and the mastoids.They can reach the brain either directly through the bone, especially in areas where the bone plate is thin, or through veins (diploic veins, dural venous sinuses, intracerebral veins). The various protective layers may also help contain infections within certain spaces or planes. EPIDURAL ABSCESS An epidural space filled with adipose tissue exists normally around the spinal cord. A spinal epidural abscess arises when organisms from osteomyelitis and tuberculosis of the vertebral column spread to this space. There is no epidural space normally in the cranium. However, a cranial epidural abscess may develop when bacteria colonize a traumatic epidural hematoma, or when infection from air sinuses extends in the plane between the dura and bone.
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Paget Subdural hematoma, posterior fossa, ,? epidural abscess, thoracic spine, ? Cauda equina
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bone into the frontal lobes of the brain. This represents an epiduralabscess being centrally tacked down by the metopic suture.
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Extractions: Lateral plain film of the skull and coned view of the frontal bone demonstrate bony cortical destruction ( arrows ) overlying opaque frontal sinuses. A frontal view of the sinuses demonstrates opacification of the maxillary sinus ( arrows Axial contrast-enhanced CT images demonstrate a soft tissue mass ( white arrows ) overlying the frontal bone, the opaque frontal sinuses, and two lentiform enhancing areas ( black arrows ) pressing posteriorly from the eroded frontal bone into the frontal lobes of the brain. This represents an epidural abscess being centrally "tacked down" by the metopic suture. Coronal sinus CT also demonstrates the opaque maxillary sinus and frontal sinuses ( black arrows ), as well as bony destruction (
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