ArticleBMC infectious diseases2016
Comparison of characteristics of culture-negative pyogenic spondylitis and tuberculous spondylitis: a retrospective study.
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- Epidemiology and management of infectious spondylitis in Korea: a narrative review.Ewha medical journal · 2024Review
- Spinal infection caused by Coxiella burnetii.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Surgery combined with antibiotics for thoracic vertebralWorld journal of clinical cases · 2022Article
- MRI in differential diagnosis between tuberculous and pyogenic 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 · 2022Article
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- Granulomatous spondylodiscitis: A case series with focus on histopathological features.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2021Article
- Change of Pyogenic and Tuberculous Spondylitis between 2007 and 2016 Year : A Nationwide Study.Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundDifferences between the characteristics of culture positive pyogenic spondylitis (CPPS) and tuberculous spondylitis (TS) are well known. However, differences between the characteristics of culture negative pyogenic spondylitis (CNPS) and TS have not been reported; these would be more helpful in clinical practice especially when initial microbiologic examination of blood and/or biopsy tissue did not reveal the causative bacteria in patients with infectious spondylitis.
methodsWe performed a retrospective review of the medical records of patients with CNPS and TS. We compared the characteristics of 71 patients with CNPS with those of 94 patients with TS.
resultsPatients with TS had more previous histories of tuberculosis (9.9 vs 22.3 %, p = 0.034), simultaneous tuberculosis other than of the spine (0 vs 47.9 %, p < 0.001), and positive results in the interferon-gamma release assay (27.6 vs 79.2 %, p < 0.001). Fever (15.5 vs. 31.8 %, p = 0.018), psoas abscesses (15.5 vs 33.0 %, p = 0.011), and paravertebral abscesses (49.3 vs. 74.5 %, p = 0.011) were also more prevalent in TS than CNPS.
conclusionsDifferent from or contrary to the previous comparisons between CPPS and TS, fever, psoas abscesses, and paravertebral abscesses are more common in patients with TS than in those with CNPS.
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