A 39-year-old African American man with no significant past medical history presented to our hospital with right hand weakness and pain in both arms. He had no fever, neck pain, headache, dizziness, vision changes, or weakness in his lower extremities. Magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spine showed extensive abnormal enhancement of the C7-T1 vertebral bodies as well as the prevertebral...

There are many causes of localized displacement of the paraspinal line, including spinal disease, lymphadenopathy, descending aortic aneurysm, traumatic haematoma, even extramedullary haemopoiesis and oesophageal varices. However, in association with intervertebral disc space narrowing, tuberculous and pyogenic osteomyelitis must be excluded. Bone metastases rarely narrow the intervertebral dis...

Osteomyelitis is a bone infection that may initiate due to a local trauma or infection or it may originate due to infections occurring elsewhere in the body (microorganisms are transported by the bloodstream in this case). The bone may be predisposed to infection because of trauma or because of a medical condition like diabetes. The microorganisms responsible for the infection are usually pyoge...

This review deals with thirty-eight patients with tuberculosis of the greater trochanter treated throughout or partly at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital during the last twenty-five years. In thirty-five cases the diagnosis was confirmed by culture, histology or guinea)ig illoculation. In the other three cases we considered that tile clinical and radiographic findings justified their inc...

Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative anaerobic, gram-positive bacillus that is isolated from the soil, vegetables, and wild or domestic animals. Listeria occurs predominantly in the elderly, immunocompromised patients, pregnant women and newborns. Infections by this microorganism are rare in healthy infants and children. L. monocytogenes may cause meningitis, meningoencephalitis, brain absce...