Percutaneous drainage and continuous irrigation in patients with severe pyogenic spondylitis, abscess formation, and marked bone destruction

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 374-379

  Hanaoka, Naoyoshi ^a   Kawasaki, Yoshiteru ^b   Sakai, Toshinori ^b   Nakamura, Taro ^b   Nanamori, Kazuhisa ^b   Nakamura, Eijiro ^b   Uchida, Ken ^b   Yamada, Hidehiro ^b  

^a Oita Nakamura Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abscess; Continuous irrigation; Lumbar spine; Percutaneous drainage; Pyogenic spondylitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRAIN; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PSOAS ABSCESS; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE SURGERY; SPONDYLITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; LAVAGE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SPONDYLOLYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PSOAS ABSCESS; SPONDYLITIS; SPONDYLOLYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646935779     PISSN: 15475654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/spi.2006.4.5.374     Document Type: Article

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