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Evaluation of diagnostic criteria and choice of treatment tactics for patients with infectious spondylodiscitis based on a case series

Хирургия позвоночника, 2023
Objective. To present a brief description of a series of clinical cases of infectious spondylodiscitis with an assessment of the used diagnostic criteria in terms of their influence on the choice of sanifying treatment tactics. Material and Methods.
Lyudmila V. Lyubimova, Elena V. Preobrazhenskaya, Nikolay S. Nikolaev, Nadezhda N. Pchelova, Evgeniy A. Lyubimov   +4 more
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Tachyarrhythmia improved by management of low back pain in a patient with delayed diagnosis of infective spondylodiscitis: A case report

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2020
A 77-year-old man presented to the emergency room with a 1-month history of persistent low back pain with the absence of vital sign abnormalities. On several previous orthopedic surgery clinic visits, pathological back pain had not been considered and ...
Koshi Ota, Naoya Onishi, Kensuke Fujii, Eriko Nakamura, Yasuo Oishi, Masahiro Oka, Kanna Ota, Yohei Sano, Hiroki Yokoyama, Akira Takasu   +9 more
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Nonspecific Pyoinflammatory Lesions of the Spine: Spondylodiscitis, Epiduritis

Неотложная медицинская помощь, 2019
Nonspecific infectious lesions of the spine are relatively rare, difficult to diagnose and severe diseases of the spine. The urgency of treating nonspecific infectious spinal diseases is explained by an increase in the frequency of these diseases, new ...
A. V. Yarikov, A. P. Fraerman, O. A. Perlmutter, A. A. Denisov, S. V. Masevnin, I. I. Smirnov, A. N. Lavrenyuk   +6 more
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Sequential endoscopic and robot-assisted surgical solutions for a rare fungal spondylodiscitis, secondary lumbar spinal stenosis, and subsequent discal pseudocyst causing acute cauda equina syndrome: a case report

BMC Surgery, 2022
Background Fungal spondylodiscitis is a rare infectious disease. The secondary lumbar spinal stenosis and postoperative discal pseudocyst were even rarer.
Chao Wang, Lu Zhang, Hao Zhang, Derong Xu, Xuexiao Ma   +4 more
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The role of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of postoperative spondylodiscitis [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2004
Background. Spondylodiscitis, discitis associated with vertebral osteomyelitis may follow disc-removal surgery. A targeted successful treatment of spinal infections requires clinical and laboratory data that are completed by the contribution of imaging ...
Stošić-Opinćal Tatjana L., Perić Vesna, Grujičić Danica M., Gavrilović Svetlana, Golubičić Ivana V.   +4 more
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Neurosurgical Management and Outcome Parameters in 237 Patients with Spondylodiscitis

Brain Sciences, 2021
Surgical treatment of spondylodiscitis allows for rapid mobilization and shortens hospital stays, which makes surgical treatment the first-line therapy. We aim to describe our experiences with operative treatment on spondylodiscitis and to determine the ...
Mirza Pojskić, Barbara Carl, Vincent Schmöckel, Benjamin Völlger, Christopher Nimsky, Benjamin Saβ   +5 more
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Hematologic Inflammation Indices for Differentiating between Brucella, Pyogenic, and Tuberculous Spondylodiscitis

Biomedicines
Infectious spondylodiscitis is a life-threatening disease and has some challenges in terms of diagnostic, differentiative, and therapeutic processes. Therefore, rapid and effective management of infectious spondylodiscitis is necessary.
Ali Irfan Baran, Irfan Binici, Yusuf Arslan, Zekiye Hakseven Karaduman, Server Ilter, Tayyar Tarcan, Murat Unal   +6 more
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Characteristics of spontaneous coagulase-negative staphylococcal spondylodiscitis: a retrospective comparative study versus Staphylococcus aureus spondylodiscitis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are increasingly implicated in recent patient series of spondylodiscitis, but there are no series of CoNS-spondylodiscitis available.
Julien Lopez, Zuzana Tatar, Anne Tournadre, Marion Couderc, Bruno Pereira, Martin Soubrier, Jean-Jacques Dubost   +6 more
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Computed Tomography–Guided Spinal Biopsy in Suspected Infective Spondylodiscitis: An Institutional Review of Its Utility

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2023
Background Infectious spondylodiscitis is a debilitating condition and evidence-based medicine dictates confirming the diagnosis before treatment. Computed tomography–guided spinal biopsy plays a major role and hence we would like to determine its ...
Raj Chendur Abhishek Ravichandran, Rohit Amritanand, Vinu Moses, Madhavi Kandagaddala, Venkatesh Krishnan, Kenny Samuel David, Justin Arockiaraj, Harini Kulasekaran, Maya Pavalasseril Ganesan, Anne Jennifer Prabhu, Shyamkumar Nidugala Keshava   +10 more
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Sensitivity and specificity of the detection of spondylodiscitis by conventional radiography

Ulusal Romatoloji Dergisi
Objective: Diagnosis of spondylodiscitis is usually possible radiographically with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, the first imaging method evaluated in daily practice is conventional radiography.
Zehra Özsoy, Emrach Chousein, Gizem Ayan, Güllü Sandal Uzun, Mustafa Ekici, Erdinç Ünaldı, Büşra Fırlatan, Gözde Sevgi Kart Bayram, Buğu Bulat, Levent Kılıç   +9 more
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