Diagnosis behind the mask: A rare case of infected Charcot's spine.

Giedre Kučinskaite, Theodor Lutz, Sönke Frey, Mark Wetterkamp, Tobias L Schulte, Carsten Lukas

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Giedre KučinskaiteDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Gudrunstrasse 56, Bochum, 44791, Germany.

Theodor LutzDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, St. Marien Hospital Hamm, Germany.

Sönke FreyDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

Mark WetterkampDepartment of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

Tobias L SchulteDepartment of Orthopedics, Emergency Surgery and Hand Surgery, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Dusseldorf, Germany.

Carsten LukasInstitute of Neuroradiology, St. Josef Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

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Abstract

Charcot's spine is a very uncommon long-term complication of spinal cord injury. Infection of the spine is a common pathology, but infection of a Charcot's spine is rare and is challenging to diagnose, especially in differentiating between the Charcot defect and the osteomyelitis defect. Surgical reconstruction has to be extremely individualized. A 65-year-old man with a history of thoracic spinal cord injury with paraplegia 49 years ago was admitted to our hospital with high fever and aphasia. After a thorough diagnostic process, destructive Charcot's spine and secondary infection were diagnosed. This report additionally reviews the surgical management of secondary infected destructive lumbar Charcot's spine and follows the patient's recovery and postoperative quality of life.

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Case ReportCharcot's spineInfectionReconstructive surgerySpine

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PMID37324554

DOI10.1016/j.radcr.2023.05.012

PMCPMC10267433

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