Spondylodiscitis: A Diagnostic and Management Dilemma.

Aims Spondylodiscitis (SpD), a debilitating infective condition of the spine, mandates early diagnosis and institution of appropriate therapy, for which accurate microbiology and histological evaluation of the affected tissue is vital. The objectives of the study were to assess the correlation between clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings with histopathology (HPE) and microbiology (MB) in clinically diagnosed spondylodiscitis. Settings and design This was a prospective study of 34 consecutive patients reporting at the outpatient department of a tertiary hospital with clinical and imaging features of SpD, who underwent image-guided/surgical biopsy of lesions.