STAPHYLOCOCCAL BRAIN-ABSCESS FOLLOWING HEMATOGENOUS SEEDING OF AN INTRACEREBRAL HEMATOMA

Brain abscesses due to Staphylococcus aureus are most frequently assoc iated with penetrating head trauma or surgical procedures, and they ar e uncommon as a metastatic focus of bacteremia, except in the setting of endocarditis (1, 2). There have been few reports of abscess formati on following an intracerebral hematoma (3). We present a case of tempo roparietal hematoma which developed into a brain abscess after bacteri al seeding during a staphylococcal bacteremia.