Unusual Fatal Infections after Anterior Cervical Spine Surgeries

We report two cases of cervical spinal epidural abscess (SEA), which are related to anterior cervical surgeries. The first case reveals a late postoperative infection without any predisposing factor. The second case reveals combined complication of infection and instrument failure (artificial disc)....

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Autores principales: Hur, Junseok W, Lee, Jang-Bo, Kim, Joo-Han, Kim, Se-Hoon, Cho, Tai-Hyoung, Suh, Jung-Keun, Park, Youn-Kwan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4431026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25983839
http://dx.doi.org/10.14245/kjs.2012.9.3.304
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author Hur, Junseok W
Lee, Jang-Bo
Kim, Joo-Han
Kim, Se-Hoon
Cho, Tai-Hyoung
Suh, Jung-Keun
Park, Youn-Kwan
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description We report two cases of cervical spinal epidural abscess (SEA), which are related to anterior cervical surgeries. The first case reveals a late postoperative infection without any predisposing factor. The second case reveals combined complication of infection and instrument failure (artificial disc). Both two cases manifested ascending infections that are unusual courses of anterior cervical infections. The abscess extended upwards and, finally, caused life threatening bacterial meningitis. We suggest aggressive surgical interventions with anti-bacterial therapies in such cases.
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spelling pubmed-44310262015-05-15 Unusual Fatal Infections after Anterior Cervical Spine Surgeries Hur, Junseok W Lee, Jang-Bo Kim, Joo-Han Kim, Se-Hoon Cho, Tai-Hyoung Suh, Jung-Keun Park, Youn-Kwan Korean J Spine Case Report We report two cases of cervical spinal epidural abscess (SEA), which are related to anterior cervical surgeries. The first case reveals a late postoperative infection without any predisposing factor. The second case reveals combined complication of infection and instrument failure (artificial disc). Both two cases manifested ascending infections that are unusual courses of anterior cervical infections. The abscess extended upwards and, finally, caused life threatening bacterial meningitis. We suggest aggressive surgical interventions with anti-bacterial therapies in such cases. The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2012-09 2012-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4431026/ /pubmed/25983839 http://dx.doi.org/10.14245/kjs.2012.9.3.304 Text en Copyright © 2012 The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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