Surgical treatment with spinal instrumentation for pyogenic spondylodiscitis due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): A report of five cases

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 339-345

  Masuda, Takahiro ^a   Miyamoto, Kei ^a   Hosoe, Hideo ^a   Sakaeda, Hirofumi ^b   Tanaka, Mizuo ^c   Shimizu, Katsuji ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Gifu Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^c Tanaka Orthopaedic Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compromised hosts; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Pyogenic spondylodiscitis; Spinal instrumentation

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFACLOR; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOZOPRAN; CEFPIROME; CILASTATIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; HABEKACIN; IMIPENEM; METICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEBRIDEMENT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEPSIS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; BONE NAILS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISCITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745368251     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0114-9     Document Type: Article

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