Summary
A 25-year-old man with lung abscess and signs of an abscess in the rostral brain-stem was cured by large doses of antibiotics and stereotactic aspiration of the abscess.
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Fujino, H., Kobayashi, T., Goto, I. et al. Cure of a man with solitary abscess of the brain-stem. J Neurol 237, 265–266 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00314632
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