Cervical spine epidural abscess caused by brucellosis: A case report and literature review

We report a rare case of epidural abscess at the cervical 5‐cervical 6 (C5–C6) levels. The patient underwent surgery with complete abscess removal through C6 vertebral body corpectomy. The result of bacteriological culture was Brucella melitensis. Brucellosis must be considered as a possible cause o...

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Autores principales: Shafizad, Misagh, Ehteshami, Saeid, Shojaei, Hamidreza, Jalili Khoshnoud, Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35356180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5644
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description We report a rare case of epidural abscess at the cervical 5‐cervical 6 (C5–C6) levels. The patient underwent surgery with complete abscess removal through C6 vertebral body corpectomy. The result of bacteriological culture was Brucella melitensis. Brucellosis must be considered as a possible cause of epidural abscess in patients from endemic area.
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spelling pubmed-89406012022-03-29 Cervical spine epidural abscess caused by brucellosis: A case report and literature review Shafizad, Misagh Ehteshami, Saeid Shojaei, Hamidreza Jalili Khoshnoud, Reza Clin Case Rep Case Reports We report a rare case of epidural abscess at the cervical 5‐cervical 6 (C5–C6) levels. The patient underwent surgery with complete abscess removal through C6 vertebral body corpectomy. The result of bacteriological culture was Brucella melitensis. Brucellosis must be considered as a possible cause of epidural abscess in patients from endemic area. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8940601/ /pubmed/35356180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5644 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://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_full Cervical spine epidural abscess caused by brucellosis: A case report and literature review
title_fullStr Cervical spine epidural abscess caused by brucellosis: A case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Cervical spine epidural abscess caused by brucellosis: A case report and literature review
title_short Cervical spine epidural abscess caused by brucellosis: A case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940601/
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