Neurosurgery notes/Infection/Spinal infection

Spinal infection

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Infection
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Spinal epidural abscess (SEA)
Vertebral osteomyelitis (VO)
Tuberculosis
Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis
Psoas abscess
Grisel's syndrome
SSI
Spinal subdural empyemas (SSE)
Intramedullary spinal cord abscesses (ISCAs)
  • Categories
    • Vertebral osteomyelitis (spondylitis)
      • Pyogenic
      • Nonpyogenic, granulomatous
        • Tuberculous spondylitis
        • Brucellosis
        • Aspergillosis
        • Blastomycosis
        • Coccidiomycosis
        • Infection with Candida tropicalis
    • Discitis: usually associated with vertebral osteomyelitis (spondylodiscitis)
      • Spontaneous
      • Postoperative/post-procedure
    • Spinal epidural abscess
      • MRI experience suggests that patients with infectious spondylitis will develop an associated epidural abscess if untreated, and that epidural empyema is unusual in the absence of vertebral osteomyelitis. Thus, the discovery of one of these conditions should prompt a search for the other
    • Spinal subdural empyema
    • Meningitis
    • Spinal cord abscess