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During the past 40 years, 130 case studies of children with various stages of brain abscess were observed at the Neurosurgical Clinic of Vienna. The purpose of this report is to point out the importance of early diagnosis and how brain abscesses in children differ from those in older age groups.
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Schuster, H., Koos, W. (1981). Brain Abscess in Children. In: Schiefer, W., Klinger, M., Brock, M. (eds) Brain Abscess and Meningitis. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67943-8_11
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