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Management of post-operative discitis following discectomy in a tertiary-level hospital
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery, 2021 Purpose: To perform retrospective analysis of 75 post-operative disc space infections after open lumbar discectomy (OLD) and to assess the outcome of their medical and surgical management in a tertiary-level hospital.
Md Kamrul Ahsan +3 more
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Spontaneous Vertebral Aspergillosis, the State of Art: A Systematic Literature Review [PDF]
Neurospine, 2021 Objective Vertebral aspergillosis is quite rare conditions, often misdiagnosed, that requires long-term antibiotic therapy, and sometimes, surgical treatments.
Andrea Perna +8 more
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Inadvertent discogram during transforaminal epidural injection in patients with lumbar disc herniation -A report of 2 cases- [PDF]
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2010 The transforaminal epidural injection (TFEI) has been preferred in many cases because it can deliver the injected dose of medication closer to the nerve root and better facilitate ventral epidural flow compared to other methods. However, in patients with
Hyun Seog Moon +4 more
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Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons, 2021 BACKGROUND Lumbar spine osteomyelitis can be refractory to conventional techniques for identifying a causal organism. In cases in which a protracted antibiotic regimen is indicated, obtaining a conclusive yield on biopsy is particularly important ...
B. Zheng +6 more
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The Brief Case: A Variant on a Classic—Abiotrophia defectiva Endocarditis with Discitis
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2021 CASE A79-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension presented to the hospital with acute-on-chronic back pain. Ten weeks prior to presentation, he developed severe, persistent lower back pain while working on a construction project, which ...
Rebekah E. Dumm +5 more
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1983 Over a period of three years four girls and two boys presented with discitis. All were less than 5 years old at presentation, and each had a short history of symptoms. Three were initially thought to have pathological defects of the abdomen. All children showed abnormal posturing with exaggerated lumbar lordosis. Diagnosis was essentially clinical. All
O J, Hensey +3 more
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Global Spine Journal, 2012 Introduction Aggressive anterior debridement and fusion with autogenous bone graft followed with posterior instrumentation are the accepted mode for management of postoperative lumbar discitis failing to respond to conservative measures. This can be done
A. Rahimizadeh
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Conservative versus operative management of postoperative lumbar discitis
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine, 2020 Background: Treatment option of postoperative discitis (POD) is either conservative or operative, but till date, there are no established validated protocols of the treatment of postoperative lumbar discitis.
K. Ahsan +6 more
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Pathophysiology and MRI Findings of Infectious Spondylitis and the Differential Diagnosis
대한영상의학회지, 2021 On MRI, abnormal signals of the intervertebral disc, destruction of the upper and lower vertebral body endplate around the disc, and bone marrow edema around the endplate are considered typical findings of infectious spondylitis.
Sunjin Ryu +5 more
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Isolated Discitis in Melioidosis: An Unknown Presentation and a Microbiological Challenge
Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 2021 Burkholderia pseudomallei causes Whitmore’s disease or melioidosis which is endemic in many South Asian countries including India. This gram-negative bacterium is frequently found in the moist soil and agricultural workers get infected most commonly ...
A. Varma +3 more
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