Staphylococcal Discitis L3-L4:Early Diagnosis and Treatment with Favorable Result- A casereport

Authors

Chui-Lee Wong
Tzung-Chien Wang

Translated Title

第三、第四腰椎膿毒性椎間盤炎：病例報告

Abstract

A 60 year-old male patient who presented with lumbago, fever, local tenderness over lumbar spine and associated with paravertebral muscle spasm, was prescribed antibiotic therapy 12 days after the onset of initial symptom under the impression of septic lumbar discitis, which was then verified by MRI and microbiology within one week after admission. Early diagnosis and adequate antibiotic therapy gained a favorable result, although the patient needed anterior inlerbody fusion for symptomatic retrolisthesis of L3 on L4 at the sixth week after admission.

Language

English

First Page

141

Last Page

149

Recommended Citation

Wong, Chui-Lee and Wang, Tzung-Chien (1994) "Staphylococcal Discitis L3-L4:Early Diagnosis and Treatment with Favorable Result- A casereport," Rehabilitation Practice and Science: Vol. 22: Iss. 1, Article 24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6315/3005-3846.1946
Available at: https://rps.researchcommons.org/journal/vol22/iss1/24