Clinical and Epidemiological Insights on Brain Abscess Cases at Hospital Escuela in Honduras: A Five-Year Review

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The study analyzed 13 brain abscess cases at Hospital Escuela, Honduras, from 2018 to 2023, focusing on clinical and epidemiological profiles.
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61.5% of patients were male, and 53.8% were pediatric, with all abscesses located supratentorially, primarily in the parietal and occipital lobes.
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Traumatic brain injury was the most common predisposing condition, identified in 23.1% of cases, all of which were pediatric.
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Etiologic identification was achieved in 30.8% of cases, with Streptococcus spp. and opportunistic pathogens being the identified organisms.
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All patients received intravenous antimicrobial therapy, with no neurosurgical drainage performed, resulting in 0% in-hospital mortality.

Frontiers In Neurology

by Jesús Rodríguez, Daniel Pineda, Melania Madrid, Marcio Madrid, Lilian Sosa, Lupe Carolina Espinoza, Isaac Zablah
July 17, 2026

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