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Empyemas may be epidural, subdural, or mixed.

Epidural empyemas frequently have a more indolent course and cause less effect on the underlying brain.

Epidural empyemas are less common and are frequently associated with the paranasal sinuses.

Frontal sinusitis and epidural empyema in a 20 yof with myelomeningocele.