OPTIMIZATION OF THE TREATMENT TACTICS IN BRAIN ABSCESS, USING THE PUNCTURE STEREOTAXIC ASPIRATION

There was analyzed the application efficacy of stereotaxic aspiration of the brain abscess (BA) content, localized in a deep and functionally significant parts of the brain, in 12 patients--with supratentorial BA. Stereotaxic interventions were performed, using stereotaxic systems CRW Radionics (USA) and the security program for calculation of coordynates StereoFusion, StereoPlan (Radionics), Fraime Link (Medtronic, USA). Postoperative observation period have lasted from 1 to 36 mo, (14 ± 3.6) mo at average. lntraoperatively in 11 (91.7%) patients a purulent content of BA was evacuated, and in 1 (8.3%)--a BA was diagnosed in the encephalitis stage. Stereotaxic aspiration is an effective and secure method of surgical treatment of BA. It may constitute an alternative to open surgical excision of BA due to lesser invasiveness and possibility of the neurological complications occurrence.