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
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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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author Kakarlapudi, H.
Speirs, S.
Lal, A.P.
Alaie, D.
Petrillo, R.
Ashraf, M.B.
Kolanuvada, B.
Bhargava, M.
author_facet Kakarlapudi, H.
Speirs, S.
Lal, A.P.
Alaie, D.
Petrillo, R.
Ashraf, M.B.
Kolanuvada, B.
Bhargava, M.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-46879752015-12-29 A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis Kakarlapudi, H. Speirs, S. Lal, A.P. Alaie, D. Petrillo, R. Ashraf, M.B. Kolanuvada, B. Bhargava, M. Clin Med Insights Case Rep Case Report 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. Libertas Academica 2015-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4687975/ /pubmed/26715867 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/CCRep.S31253 Text en © 2015 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License.
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Kakarlapudi, H.
Speirs, S.
Lal, A.P.
Alaie, D.
Petrillo, R.
Ashraf, M.B.
Kolanuvada, B.
Bhargava, M.
A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis
title A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis
title_full A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis
title_fullStr A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis
title_full_unstemmed A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis
title_short A 73-Year-Old Male with Cervical Spine Osteomyelitis Presenting as Urosepsis
title_sort 73-year-old male with cervical spine osteomyelitis presenting as urosepsis
topic Case Report
url 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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