| Literature DB >> 18552470 |
Kosuke Kosai1, Masafumi Seki, Katsunori Yanagihara, Yoshifumi Imamura, Shigeki Nakamura, Shintaro Kurihara, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Kakeya, Yoshihiro Yamamoto, Takayoshi Tashiro, Shigeru Kohno.
Abstract
A 72-year-old woman without a history of spinal injury was admitted to our hospital with prolonged severe back pain and high fever. Clinical laboratory findings and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed severe inflammation of the L2 and L3 lumbar vertebrae. Meropenem trihydrate administration improved her symptoms. Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from the patient's blood indicated that the organism caused the spontaneous pyogenic spondylitis.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18552470 DOI： 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0937
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Intern Med ISSN： 0918-2918 Impact factor: 1.271