Abstract
1. Twenty-eight patients with pyogenic infection of the spine are reported. 2. Diagnosis was by clinical, radiological and bacteriological means. Investigations of the spinal lesions by needle aspiration or open operation was needed in four patients. 3. Treatment consisted primarily of antibiotics and rest. 4. Twenty-five patients were fit and well after follow-up of one to fifteen years. Three deaths occurred, but only one was directly connected with the infection ; urinary infection with paraplegia and haemophilia were the cause in two others. 5. The relatively benign course is stressed, as are some of the diagnostic pitfalls in the early stages, particularly with thoracic lesions.
Publisher
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery
Subject
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Surgery
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95 articles.
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