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ArticleMissouri medicine

Infectious spondylodiscitis: diagnosis and treatment.

Michael H Amini, Gary A Salzman

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Article in Missouri medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Observational
  3. The effects of spondylodiscitis on the inflammation burden in infective endocarditis.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2024
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  7. Successful Treatment of Spondylodiscitis and Infectious Sacroiliitis due toEuropean journal of case reports in internal medicine · 2022
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  8. Review
  9. Spondylodiscitis severity code: scoring system for the classification and treatment of non-specific spondylodiscitis.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael H AminiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA.
Gary A Salzman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infectious spondylodiscitis presents a diagnostic conundrum, and establishing the diagnosis often requires expensive testing and workup. But because of the potentially irreversible neurologic consequences and the great expense and time required to adequately treat this rare infection, establishing a diagnosis is paramount. Below, we present a representative case from clinical practice and examine the prevalence of certain signs and symptoms and the utility of various diagnostic modalities health care providers can use to accurately diagnose afflicted patients and avoid disastrous complications.

Indexed as

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsDiagnosis, DifferentialDiscitisHumansRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsStaphylococcal InfectionsVancomycinAnti-Bacterial AgentsVancomycin

Identifiers

PMID23457758
PMCPMC6179648

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