Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Abscess Presenting in a Previously Healthy Young Adult Man

We report a case of spontaneous spinal epidural abscess (SEA) with initial chief complaint of shoulder pain and no appreciable neurologic symptoms. Since outcomes of SEA appear to be related to the degree of neurologic deficit at the time of intervention, we explore opportunities for earlier diagnos...

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Autores principales: McDonald, Andrew M., Rollins, Jason L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24000285
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/872148
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spelling pubmed-37554372013-09-02 Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Abscess Presenting in a Previously Healthy Young Adult Man McDonald, Andrew M. Rollins, Jason L. Case Rep Med Case Report We report a case of spontaneous spinal epidural abscess (SEA) with initial chief complaint of shoulder pain and no appreciable neurologic symptoms. Since outcomes of SEA appear to be related to the degree of neurologic deficit at the time of intervention, we explore opportunities for earlier diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3755437/ /pubmed/24000285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/872148 Text en Copyright © 2013 A. M. McDonald and J. L. Rollins. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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