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- Title
Delayed Spondylodiscitis Presenting as a Skip Lesion.
- Authors
Dong Min Kim; Seok Won Kim
- Abstract
Spondylodiscitis is believed to be caused by an infection that affects vertebral bodies and the intervening intervertebral disc. Usually, typical spondylodiscitis involves a mobile vertebra-disc-vertebra unit, and in most cases, the condition is managed successfully by surgical intervention and intravenous antibiotic therapy. Here, the authors report an unusual case of a spondylodiscitis presenting as a skip lesion, which progressed from L4/L5 to L1/L2, despite open surgical biopsy and empirical intravenous antibiotics. Possible pathogenic mechanisms of this unique case are discussed and a review of the pertinent literature is included.
- Subjects
SPONDYLODISCITIS; INTERVERTEBRAL disk diseases; ANTIBIOTICS
- Publication
Korean Journal of Spine, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 1, p14
- ISSN
1738-2262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14245/kjs.2017.14.1.14