Noncontiguous multiple-level brucellar spondylodiscitis with an epidural abscess
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Noncontiguous multiple-level brucellar spondylodiscitis with an epidural abscess.
A 57-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of low back pain with decreased range of motion, fever, chills, and sweating, especially at night. The lumbar and thoracic spine was tender, and his neck was stiff, with fi xed fl exion. His white blood cell count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were 5,500/mm3 and 25mm/h, respectively. The brucella capture test result was positive (1:320). M...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0037-8682
DOI: 10.1590/0037-8682-0228-2015