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Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient

New onset low back pain which is recalcitrant to usual treatment should be evaluated aggressively even in the absence of fever or neurologic deficits. Corticosteroids given for back pain will accelerate occult spinal infection and may mask symptomatology leading to more severe disease.

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Autores principales: Zayed, Yazan, Swaid, Bakr, Gupta, Rahul, Haykal, Tarek, Osterholzer, Danielle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30656049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1864