Bacteria reach the epidural space through either hematogenous dissemination (commonly due to bloodstream infection associated with a central venous catheter, intravenous drug use, or catheter-related ...

Antibiotic therapy should be initiated as soon as the diagnosis of SEA is confirmed. Treating patients with antibiotics alone is a major advance in managing SEA. Rigamonti et al. (1999) recommended ...

To present a patient with spinal brucellosis, which was initially presented with sciatica and misdiagnosed as a lumbar disc herniation owing to nonspecific neurological and radiological findings. The ...

Acute compression of the spinal cord is a devastating but treatable disorder. Diseases that cause acute spinal cord compression constitute a special category because they originate in the spinal ...