Vertebral osteomyelitis in an adolescent girl

We present a case of a 13-year-old girl with vertebral osteomyelitis. She had been experiencing lower back pain for 5 weeks, initially thought to be due to muscular causes. The blood culture showed no bacterial growth, and she was treated empirically only with antibiotics. She responded well to trea...

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Autor principal: Salloum, Shafee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20949781
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description We present a case of a 13-year-old girl with vertebral osteomyelitis. She had been experiencing lower back pain for 5 weeks, initially thought to be due to muscular causes. The blood culture showed no bacterial growth, and she was treated empirically only with antibiotics. She responded well to treatment and required no surgical intervention. Vertebral osteomyelitis should be in the differential diagnosis in an adolescent who complains of worsening lower back pain. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential in avoiding complications.
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spelling pubmed-74252642020-08-25 Vertebral osteomyelitis in an adolescent girl Salloum, Shafee SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report We present a case of a 13-year-old girl with vertebral osteomyelitis. She had been experiencing lower back pain for 5 weeks, initially thought to be due to muscular causes. The blood culture showed no bacterial growth, and she was treated empirically only with antibiotics. She responded well to treatment and required no surgical intervention. Vertebral osteomyelitis should be in the differential diagnosis in an adolescent who complains of worsening lower back pain. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential in avoiding complications. SAGE Publications 2020-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7425264/ /pubmed/32850130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X20949781 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_full_unstemmed Vertebral osteomyelitis in an adolescent girl
title_short Vertebral osteomyelitis in an adolescent girl
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425264/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850130
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