Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Brucella is caused by a Gram-negative bacillus and is a common disease in endemic areas where people are in close contact with animals and dairy products, but brucellar cervical epidural abscess is rare. We describe a rare case of a C5–6 brucellar epidural abscess in a veterinary doctor who was trea...

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Autores principales: Khan, Muhammad Mohsin, Babu, R Arun, Iqbal, Javeed, Batas, Surya Narayan, Raza, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7335118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656150
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_358_19
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author Khan, Muhammad Mohsin
Babu, R Arun
Iqbal, Javeed
Batas, Surya Narayan
Raza, Ali
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description Brucella is caused by a Gram-negative bacillus and is a common disease in endemic areas where people are in close contact with animals and dairy products, but brucellar cervical epidural abscess is rare. We describe a rare case of a C5–6 brucellar epidural abscess in a veterinary doctor who was treated with decompression and instrumentation. We also review the cases of cervical brucellar epidural abscess treated with instrumentation in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-73351182020-07-09 Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature Khan, Muhammad Mohsin Babu, R Arun Iqbal, Javeed Batas, Surya Narayan Raza, Ali Asian J Neurosurg Case Report Brucella is caused by a Gram-negative bacillus and is a common disease in endemic areas where people are in close contact with animals and dairy products, but brucellar cervical epidural abscess is rare. We describe a rare case of a C5–6 brucellar epidural abscess in a veterinary doctor who was treated with decompression and instrumentation. We also review the cases of cervical brucellar epidural abscess treated with instrumentation in the literature. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7335118/ /pubmed/32656150 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_358_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Khan, Muhammad Mohsin
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Iqbal, Javeed
Batas, Surya Narayan
Raza, Ali
Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Cervical Epidural Abscess due to Brucella Treated with Decompression and Instrumentation: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort cervical epidural abscess due to brucella treated with decompression and instrumentation: a case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7335118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656150
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_358_19
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