Collapsed L4 Vertebral Body Caused by Brucellosis
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Collapsed L4 Vertebral Body Caused by Brucellosis
Brucellosis is caused by gram-negative, aerobic, non-motile, facultative, intracellular coccobacilli belonging to the genus Brucella. A 50-year-old man working as an employee was admitted to neurosurgery clinic with severe low back, radicular right leg pain and hypoesthesia in right L4-5 dermatomes for 2 months. Brucella tube agglutination (Wright) test was positive in serum sample of the patie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2005-3711,1598-7876
DOI: 10.3340/jkns.2014.55.1.48