Bacteremia coexisting with tophaceous gout of the spine mimicking spondylodiscitis: A case report

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Tsai, Chun Hao ^a   Chen, Yen Jen ^a,b   Hsu, Horng Chaung ^a,b   Chen, Hsien Te ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Gout; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pyogenic spondylodiscitis; Spinal tophi

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID; URIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE DESTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GOUT; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE TOPHACEOUS GOUT; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; URINE CULTURE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISKITIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; SPINE DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTEBRA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISCITIS; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; SPINAL DISEASES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 64049105818     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31818d051a     Document Type: Article

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