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Percutaneous diskectomy for disk space infections
1Orthopaedic Research Center, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77225-0269, USA.
Abstract:
To diagnose and treat intervertebral disk space infection, we used percutaneous diskectomy in four patients to harvest a large amount of disk material and to decompress and lavage the infected disk space with a broad spectrum antibiotic solution. This treatment regimen rapidly diminished pain and shortened the acute clinical course of the process. The long-term course in this small number of patients, however, appears not to have been altered.

