A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis

Vertebral osteomyelitis is a serious debilitating infection if not detected early. Involvement of cervical vertebrae is usually seen in the presence of specific risk factors. Urinary tract infection commonly spreads to the lumbar vertebrae. This is a case presentation of an elderly male who, in the...

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Autores principales: Kakarlapudi, H., Speirs, S., Lal, A.P., Alaie, D., Petrillo, R., Ashraf, M.B., Kolanuvada, B., Bhargava, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26715867
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S31253
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Sumario:Vertebral osteomyelitis is a serious debilitating infection if not detected early. Involvement of cervical vertebrae is usually seen in the presence of specific risk factors. Urinary tract infection commonly spreads to the lumbar vertebrae. This is a case presentation of an elderly male who, in the absence of specific risk factors for cervical osteomyelitis, presented with symptoms of urinary tract infection and was found to have cervical spine osteomyelitis.

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