We present a case of vertebral osteomyelitis following vertebroplasty in a patient with acne of the back. Vertebral biopsy revealed Corynebacterium species and blood cultures were positive for Propionibacterium species. The patient did not respond to long-term intravenous antibiotics and required vertebral corpectomy and debridement with instrumentation. Interventionalists should be able to rec...

THIS REPORT deals with 3 cases of proliferative disease of the bone in Matschie tree kangaroos (Dendrolagus matschiei) at the National Zoological Park. The osseous lesions had similar radiographic manifestations but dissimilar causes. One kangaroo had tuberculous osteomyelitis of the vertebral column and radius; the 2nd had a chondrosarcoma of the vertebral column and femur; and the 3rd had bil...

AIM To evaluate the feasibility of this novel surgical approach for treatment of cervical discitis and vertebral osteomyelitis. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a report of two patients who underwent anterior cervical decompression for discitis and vertebral osteomyelitis (DVO) with cervical spine reconstruction with polymethylmethacrylate impregnated with antibiotics (AI-PMMA). RESULTS Both pa...

Study Design Case report. Objective The purpose of this report is to discuss the surgical management of lumbar vertebral osteomyelitis with a spinal epidural abscess (SEA) and present a single-stage, posterior-only circumferential decompression and reconstruction with instrumentation using an expandable titanium cage and without segmental nerve root sacrifice as an option in the treatment of th...

Only few cases of spinal subdural empyema has been reported in the literature and the preoperative diagnosis is much less. Due to the advance of magnetic resonance imaging techniques, we reported a 75 years old female with spinal subdural empyema. She was a diabetic patient and received laminectomy, complicated with vertebral body osteomyelitis about 15 years ago at the 4th and 5th vertebral bo...

Spondylodiscitis is a disease which defined as osteomyelitis of vertebral bodies and infection of intervertebral disc. Spondylodiscitis constitute approximately 3-5% of all cases of osteomyelitis. Spondylodiscitis are classified as pyogenic, granulomatous (tuberculosis, brucellosis, fungal-factor) and parasitic infections aetiologically. Tuberculosis is one of the most common reason of spinal i...

Acquired torticollis is not a separate disease rather warning sign of an underlying disorder. The etiology in children quite wide. Hematogenous osteomyelitis the first cervical vertebra (the atlas) extremely rare and potentially dangerous pathology. aim to acquaint physicians different specialties with condition – acute hematogenous atlas. Case Report. A case 7-year-old boy presented. An import...

Background: The purpose of this case report is to present an unusual and unique case of vertebral osteomyelitis due to the organism Cryptococcus neoformans, which was found to be isolated to the fourth lumbar vertebra in an immunocompetent patient. Cryptotoccus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast which typically presents in severely immunocompromised patients. Vertebral osteomyelitis is most co...