1. Spinal epidural empyema extending from a pleural empyema: case description and anatomical overview
- Author
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Gabriel Torrealba Acosta, Gabriel Castro Ulloa, Greivin Rodríguez Rojas, and Sylvia Josephy Hernández
- Subjects
Male ,Staphylococcus aureus ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pyomyositis ,Autopsy ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Neurogenic shock ,Spinal Cord Diseases ,Diabetes Complications ,03 medical and health sciences ,Fatal Outcome ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Spinal canal ,Empyema, Pleural ,Aged ,Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury ,business.industry ,Pleural empyema ,General Medicine ,Staphylococcal Infections ,respiratory system ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,medicine.disease ,Spinal cord ,Empyema ,respiratory tract diseases ,Surgery ,body regions ,surgical procedures, operative ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Epidural Abscess ,Neurosurgery ,business ,Spinal Canal ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
We present a case of a patient with diabetes with a pleural empyema originated from a pyomyositis process established after a central line procedure. This empyema later on extended into the spinal canal deriving into an epidural empyema, leading towards a spinal neurogenic shock and death. We discuss the anatomical substrate for this extension as well as the anatomopathological findings observed in the autopsy.
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- 2017