Does acute placement of instrumentation in the treatment of vertebral osteomyelitis predispose to recurrent infection: Long-term follow-up in immune-suppressed patients

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2089-2093

  Carragee, Eugene ^a,b   Iezza, Alexander ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinicaloutcomes; Discitis; Immune compromise; Osteomyelitis; Spinalinstrumentation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMPLANT; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METAL IMPLANTATION; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; PSOAS ABSCESS; PYOGENIC BACTERIUM; RECURRENT INFECTION; REOPERATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE STABILIZATION; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55449113909     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181839b9c     Document Type: Article

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