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Gas-forming vertebral osteomyelitis in diabetic patients
C W Chen1, C J Yang, J J Huang
1Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
We report 2 cases of gas-forming vertebral osteomyelitis in diabetic patients. Both were caused by gram-negative bacilli, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae respectively. Both ran a fulminant course to death despite appropriate parenteral antibiotics. We suggest that early surgical intervention may be needed in cases with gas-forming vertebral osteomyelitis.