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CALDERON-ESCOBEDO, Roberto et al. Brain abscess: a case report. Rev. sanid. mil. [online]. 2022, vol.76, n.1, e02.  Epub 03-Fev-2023. ISSN 0301-696X.  https://doi.org/10.56443/rsm.v76i1.270.

Patient of 69 years with a history of diabetes, arterial hypertension and COPD, showing conscious and focal alterations of the neurologic state, which at a beginning correspond to a diabetic comma and elevated blood pressure with difficulty to elevate the right eyelid, cranium tomography, cranium magnetic resonance and laboratory tests are run. The tomography shows findings of thrombosis vs. thrombophlebitis of the venous sinus characterized by right ptosis with increment of the intraconal fat density, extraconal muscle edema, predominantly left bulging of the venous sinus, infarct on the frontobasal gyrus. Inflammatory process of the nasal mucosa of paranasal cavities. Cranium magnetic resonance bilateral frontobasal parenchimal abscesses are reported, associated to bilateral etmoidal inflammatory and infectious process and myositis of the upper right oblicuos.

Palavras-chave : Neurology; Hypertension.

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