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ArticleCase reports in infectious diseases2019

Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis due to

Charalampos Potsios, Panagiota Xaplanteri, Vasileios Zoitopoulos, Panagiotis Patrinos, Iro Ioanna Giannakopoulou, Ilektra Tzivaki, Theodora Kafentzi, Konstantina Samanta, Konstantina Filioti, Panagiotis Sideris and 2 more

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Article in Case reports in infectious diseases, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. [A patient with Pott's disease].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2022
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  4. Acute Pyogenic Spondylitis Caused byInfection and drug resistance · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Charalampos PotsiosDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Panagiota XaplanteriDepartment of Microbiology, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4760-4165
Vasileios ZoitopoulosDepartment of Microbiology, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Panagiotis PatrinosDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Iro Ioanna GiannakopoulouDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Ilektra TzivakiDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Theodora KafentziDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Konstantina SamantaDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Konstantina FiliotiDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Panagiotis SiderisDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Konstantinos LetsasDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
Konstantinos KoukiosDepartment of Internal Medicine, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Aigio, Greece.
KAT General Hospital of Attica · GRGeneral University Hospital of Patras · GR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyogenic spondylodiscitis is a primary infection of the intervertebral disc and is a rare entity. Here, we describe the case of a 64-year-old male patient, a professional breeder, who attended the Emergency Department with sciatica and back pain that was worsening for a week. The patient had no history of surgery or trauma. The patient had poor oral hygiene. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan showed lumbar spondylodiscitis, and blood cultures revealed

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