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Department of Spine Surgery, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force of Chinese PLA, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
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- * Neck pain and limb paralysis were the most common symptoms, with rapid disease progression and the C6-7 spinal segment being most frequently affected.
- * Surgical intervention (debridement and fusion) led to significant improvements in pain and functional scores, while inflammatory markers returned to normal levels within three months, though bacterial culture tests showed low positivity rates.
Brucellar arthritis and sacroiliitis: an 8-year retrospective comparative analysis of demographic, clinical, and paraclinical features.
Ther Adv Infect Dis
May 2024
Infectious Diseases Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Introduction: Brucellosis is a common global zoonotic disease with a wide range of complex and nonspecific clinical manifestations that may lead to misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. Osteoarticular involvement is the most common complaint in brucellosis.
Objective: This present study aims to describe the clinical and laboratory characteristics and treatment of brucellosis patients with arthritis and sacroiliitis.
Surgical Treatment of Brucellar Cervical Epidural Abscess.
World Neurosurg
March 2024
Department of Spine Surgery, Orthopaedic Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China. Electronic address:
Objectives: Brucellar cervical epidural abscess (CEA) is a rare condition with potentially permanent neurological damage if left untreated. This study aims to define the clinical presentation of brucellar CEA and evaluate the outcome of surgical treatment, specifically decompression and fusion surgery. The findings will contribute to understanding whether all patients with brucellar CEA could benefit from this surgical intervention.
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Ataturk University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Erzurum, Turkey.
Brucellar cervical epidural abscess - A rare cause of neck pain.
IDCases
April 2021
Department of General Internal Medicine, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
Brucellosis, is a zoonosis infection with a planetary distribution, caused by facultative intracellular bacteria of the genus Brucella, thus has a variable clinical presentation. Spinal epidural abscesses are a rare presentation of the disease, and may carry risk of a neurovascular compromise. Here we report a 22-year-old male with spinal brucellosis complicated by a cervical epidural abscess.
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