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Central Nervous System Infections

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The central nervous system infections that are neurological emergencies are meningitis, encephalitis, focal infectious mass lesions (brain abscess and subdural empyema), and spinal epidural abscess. This chapter will review the diagnosis and management of these neuroinfectious diseases.

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Roos, K.L. (2021). Central Nervous System Infections. In: Roos, K.L. (eds) Emergency Neurology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75778-6_11

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