Case Report
Multiple Brain Abscesses due to Streptococcus anginosus: Prediction of Mortality by an Imaging Severity Index Score
Table 2
Brain abscesses by MRI and CT with IV contrast done on the same date.
| Location | Transverse diameter (cm) | Anterior posterior diameter (cm) | Craniocaudal diameter (cm) | Periabscess edema (cm) | MRI | CT | MRI | CT | MRI | CT | MRI | CT |
| Right temporal lobe | 2.6 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 3.5 | N/A | 1.3 | 1.3 | Right temporal lobe | 3.3 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 3.4 | N/A | 0.6 | 0.8 | Right occipital lobe | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 3.0 | N/A | 0.8 | 0.8 | Left occipital lobe | 2.5 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 2.0 | N/A | 0.6 | 0.6 | Left parietal lobe | 3.1 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 3.2 | N/A | 1.1 | 1.3 |
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