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A young Connecticut woman who recently got her tongue pierced wound up with an accessory she didn't bargain for -- a brain infection. Doctors at Yale University's School of Medicine who treated her ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Tongue piercing may have caused a brain abscess in an otherwise healthy young Connecticut woman, said doctors at Yale University School of Medicine. The piercing initially made her ...

Yale medical officials say they have linked a woman's brain abscess to her tongue piercing. The woman, in her mid-20s, developed symptoms of a brain abscess 18 months ago after removing a stud from ...

Despite advances in imaging techniques, laboratory diagnostics, surgical interventions, and antimicrobial treatment, brain abscess remains a challenging clinical problem with substantial case fatality ...

Parents now have another reason to frown on tongue piercing – a potentially fatal brain abscess suffered by a young woman in Connecticut. The woman’s tongue became sore and swollen two or three days ...