Presentation
Bacterial abscess MRS
From the case:
MR spectroscopy of cerebral abscess
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As in all processes which destroy normal brain tissue, NAA is absent. Within bacterial abscess cavities, lactate, alanine, cytosolic acid and acetate are elevated / present.