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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Clinical Images
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
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spelling pubmed-63330792019-01-17 Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient Zayed, Yazan Swaid, Bakr Gupta, Rahul Haykal, Tarek Osterholzer, Danielle Clin Case Rep Clinical Images 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6333079/ /pubmed/30656049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1864 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient
title_full Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient
title_fullStr Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient
title_full_unstemmed Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient
title_short Unrecognized staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis leading to fatal outcome in a previously healthy patient
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url 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
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