ArticleCureus2022
Spontaneous Multiloculated Lumbar Abscess in a Middle-Aged Male With Unexplained Progressive Back Pain and Muscle Weakness.
Article in Cureus, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
A 54-year-old man with a past medical history significant for sciatica, as well as multiple orthopedic surgeries with hardware, was transferred from an outside rural facility for further workup of a two-month history of progressive back pain and muscle weakness. Investigations ultimately revealed abnormal enhancement from T11 to sacrum, with a large epidural abscess from L5 to the sacrum, best visualized on an MRI. Following the MRI confirmation of loculated complex thoracolumbar abscess, neurosurgery performed a left L3-S1 unilateral laminotomy and evacuation of compressive multiloculated epidural abscesses. The patient was then treated with empirical antimicrobial coverage for epidural abscess with vancomycin and ceftriaxone, which was narrowed to cefazolin based on positive methicillin-susceptible
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