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Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Human Brucellar Spondylodiscitis
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A M. avium complex spondylodiscitis in a middle-aged woman with diabetes
Irini Gerogianni1, Stylianos Boutlas1, Theophilos Karachalios2
1Respiratory Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, 41110, Larisa, Greece.
Abstract:
Spondylodiscitis, the inflammation of the vertebral bodies and the intervertebral disk space, is the reason for low back pain in a minority of cases. This is caused by various pathogens. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is responsible for 17-39% of all the cases of spondylodiscitis. On the contrast, spondylodiscitis from non tuberculous mycobacteria is extremely rare in literature. We describe a 68 -year old diabetic woman which is the first case of bone marrow involvement by M. intracellulare (member of M avium complex)with spondylodiscitis.
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