A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female

Vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis are mainly due to bacterial infections though fungal infections are one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Aspergillus involving intervertebral disc space is extremely rare. We report a case of aspergillosis of inter...

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Autores principales: Raj, K. Ambedkar, Srinivasamurthy, Banushree C., Nagarajan, Krishnan, Sinduja, M. G. Ilavarasi
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24744568
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.128538
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author Raj, K. Ambedkar
Srinivasamurthy, Banushree C.
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description Vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis are mainly due to bacterial infections though fungal infections are one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Aspergillus involving intervertebral disc space is extremely rare. We report a case of aspergillosis of intervertebral L5-S1 disc space with spinal epidural abscess in an immunocompetent 45-year-old female which can add on to a few case reports described in literature as well as an insight for clinicians regarding this rare spontaneous infection in an immunocompetent patient.
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spelling pubmed-39805622014-04-17 A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female Raj, K. Ambedkar Srinivasamurthy, Banushree C. Nagarajan, Krishnan Sinduja, M. G. Ilavarasi J Craniovertebr Junction Spine Case Report Vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis are mainly due to bacterial infections though fungal infections are one of the important causes of morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Aspergillus involving intervertebral disc space is extremely rare. We report a case of aspergillosis of intervertebral L5-S1 disc space with spinal epidural abscess in an immunocompetent 45-year-old female which can add on to a few case reports described in literature as well as an insight for clinicians regarding this rare spontaneous infection in an immunocompetent patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3980562/ /pubmed/24744568 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.128538 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Raj, K. Ambedkar
Srinivasamurthy, Banushree C.
Nagarajan, Krishnan
Sinduja, M. G. Ilavarasi
A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
title A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
title_full A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
title_fullStr A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
title_short A rare case of spontaneous Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
title_sort rare case of spontaneous aspergillus spondylodiscitis with epidural abscess in a 45-year-old immunocompetent female
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24744568
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.128538
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