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Comparison Of Two Surveys Of Head Injured Patients Presenting During A Calendar Year To An Urban Medical Centre 32 Years Apart, Rashid Jooma, Shahid Ahmed, Abdul Malik Zarden
Comparison Of Two Surveys Of Head Injured Patients Presenting During A Calendar Year To An Urban Medical Centre 32 Years Apart, Rashid Jooma, Shahid Ahmed, Abdul Malik Zarden
Section of Neurosurgery
Objective: To study the patients presenting with head injuries to a tertiary hospital in Karachi during the year 2003.
Methods: During the calendar year 2003, a cross-sectional study was conducted of all patients presenting to the casualty department of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) with head injury. Personal information was collected from the patient's attendants at presentation or later if the patient had been brought in by the emergency services as an unknown person. The circumstances of the injury were similarly established and the clinical features documented.
Results: During the year 2003, a total of 3008 patients reported to the …
Gas-Producing Brain Abscess, Arshad A. Siddiqui, Khalid N. Chishti
Gas-Producing Brain Abscess, Arshad A. Siddiqui, Khalid N. Chishti
Section of Neurosurgery
A case of a known psychiatric patient who presented with rapid neurological deterioration is reported. Neuroimaging revealed a gas-producing brain abscess in left parietal lobe with a contiguous focus of infection in the adjacent bone and scalp initiated by obsessive scalp scratching. On complete surgical excision of abscess, followed by culture-based antibiotic therapy, a good neurological recovery was achieved with minimal residual deficits at follow-up.