vertebra plana is a radiological diagnosis that indicates complete compression of the vertebral body.(1,2) this condition was reported in langerhans cell histiocytosis including eosino-philic granuloma,(3, 12) ewing's sarcoma,(2,13,14) tuberculosis,(15,16) vertebral osteomyelitis,(17) aseptic necrosis,(18) aneurysmal bone cyst,(19) osteosarcoma,(20) neuroblastoma,(21) acute leu-kemia,(22) rhabd...

Computed tomography (CT) were performed in 17 adults with osteomyelitis of the spine. The dominant features were paravertebral soft-tissue swelling, abscess formation, and bone erosion. In two patients there were no findings indicative of osteomyelitis on conventional radiographs, but CT revealed paravertebral abscesses and bone lysis, helping to establish the diagnosis of osteomyelitis. CT was...

Background. Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a well known and effective therapy for bladder carcinoma. Complications from BCG are very uncommon. Vertebral osteomyelitis secondary to BCG is exceedingly rare. Methods. We report a case of vertebral osteomyelitis due to Mycobacterium bovis following intravesical BCG therapy. We then present a review of all the reported cases of BCG-in...

Intraosseous infection of Salmonella species typically occurs in long bones children with hemoglobinopathies, like sickle cell anemia. Osteomyelitis the pelvis or vertebral body healthy is extremely rare. This especially so when occurring same period geographical area. Antibiotic treatment alone can be effective; however, case a persistent ongoing foreign situ , surgical drainage should conside...

The incidence of invasive candidal infection is increasing. The widespread use of central intravascular catheters, invasive procedures, immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus, total parenteral nutrition, broad-spectrum antibiotics and drugs abuse predispose patients to the infection. Eye, kidney, liver, skin, cardiac and brain infections are the most common site of invasive candidiasis while vert...

Candida vertebral osteomyelitis was diagnosed in a patient with systemic lupus erythematodes following X-ray evidence of osteomyelitis and the repeated culturing of Candida albicans from material obtained by needle biopsies from the third lumbar vertebra. The patient had been on glucocorticosteroids and parenteral nutrition six months previously. At that time, a yeast was cultured from the bloo...

STUDY DESIGN  A case report. OBJECTIVE  Pyogenic osteomyelitis is the most common form of vertebral infection and typically resolves following conservative treatment with antibiotics administered long term and immobilization. In cases of spinal instability, severe neurological deficit or disease refractory to medical management, neurosurgical intervention is warranted. Historically, these pat...

White blood cells, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein are sensitive tools to discover rare, but potentially serious pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis, a disease whose incidence is increasing.

BACKGROUND Biopsy specimens are often obtained in the evaluation of hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis. The effect of prebiopsy antibiotic exposure on pathogen recovery is unknown. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adult inpatients with hematogenous vertebral osteomyelitis at a tertiary care hospital from 1 January 2003 through 31 July 2007. Antibiotic exposure within 14 ...