Abstract
Neurosurgical CNS infections refer to infectious diseases of the skull and spinal canal secondary to neurosurgical disease or requiring neurosurgical management; sometimes, early diagnosis is difficult and diagnostic imaging can provide an important diagnostic basis. Post-neurosurgical infections are predominantly bacterial, including post-neurosurgical epidural abscesses, subdural pus, brain abscesses, meningitis, and ventriculitis; cranial infections are due to cranial trauma, ventricular and lumbar pool external drainage, shunts, and implant-related meningitis or ventriculitis. This chapter focuses on postoperative infections and chemical meningitis to provide valuable imaging information for clinical diagnosis.
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Wang, W., Guo, J., Zhu, M., Deng, D., Gao, L. (2023). Complications Associated with Post-surgical Infection. In: Li, H., Wang, J., Zhang, X. (eds) Radiology of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases - Volume 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0039-8_21
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