نتایج جستجو برای: epidural abscess
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A 37 year old Senegalese male presented with lower back and flank pain. The pain was described by the patient as both sharp and dull and sudden in onset starting one month prior to presentation, progressively worsening each day. The pain was not relieved by analgesics. The patient denied significant weight loss, subjective fever, night sweats as well as any other respiratory symptoms. No sensor...
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is responsible for a broad range of infections. We report the case of a 46-year-old gentleman with a history of untreated, uncomplicated Hepatitis C who presented with a 2-month history of back pain and was found to have abscesses in his psoas and right paraspinal muscles with subsequent lumbar spine osteomyelitis. Despite...
Spinal epidural abscess, if especially caused by Brucellosis is a very rare disease which is usually a consequence of spondylodiscitis. The spinal column can be affected at any joint; however, the lumbar spine is the most common region, especially at the level of the L4-5 and L5-S1. The frequency of spinal involvement usually seen at the lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine respectively. As an o...
Copyright © 2017 Massachusetts Medical Society. Acute compression of the spinal cord is a devastating but treatable disorder. Diseases that cause acute spinal cord compression constitute a special category because they originate in the spinal column and narrow the spinal canal. This review addresses the disorders that account for most instances of acute spinal cord compression: trauma, tumor, e...
A 62-year-old man visited our emergency department with sudden onset of paraparesis 24 hours before the visit. His medical history revealed prolonged suffering from back pain in addition to diabetes mellitus for 27 years. T2weighted-magnetic resonance imaging of the spine revealed epidural space lesions that extended from C5 to L5 and occupied posterior spaces (Picture 1, 2). The patient was di...
BACKGROUND A nationwide outbreak of fungal infections was traced to injection of Exserohilum-contaminated methylprednisolone. We describe our experience with patients who developed spinal or paraspinal infection after injection of contaminated methylprednisolone. METHODS Data were assembled from the Michigan Department of Community Health, electronic medical records, and magnetic resonance im...
BACKGROUND CONTEXT The notion that all patients with spinal epidural abscess (SEA) require surgical decompression has been recently challenged by reports of successful medical management of select patients with SEA. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the independent variables that determine success or failure of medical management of SEA. STUDY DESIGN/SETTING This was a retro...
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