Changing Trends in the Epidemiology of Pyogenic Vertebral Osteomyelitis: The Impact of Cases with No Microbiologic Diagnosis

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-255

  Lora Tamayo, Jaime ^a   Euba, Gorane ^a   Narváez, José A ^a   Murillo, Oscar ^a   Verdaguer, Ricard ^a   Sobrino, Beatriz ^b   Narváez, Javier ^a   Nolla, Joan M ^a   Ariza, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CT guided vertebral biopsy; Empirical antibiotic treatment; Pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis; Spondylodiscitis; Unknown etiology

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOXACILLIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGE; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BONE BIOPSY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOGENIC SPONDYLITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; SPONDYLITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE;

EID: 80755189964     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: 1532866X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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