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Vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abcess due to mucormycosis, a case report.
- Source :
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Clinical neurology and neurosurgery [Clin Neurol Neurosurg] 1979; Vol. 81 (1), pp. 39-44. - Publication Year :
- 1979
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Abstract
- A patient is described, with a history of pain in the neck, followed by a slowly progressive loss of muscle strength in both arms, followed by tetraplegia. Medical history included laryngectomy with partial hypopharyngectomy preceded by radiotherapy, because of carcinoma. X-ray of the cervical spine was suggestive for metastases. The patient died as a consequence of massive pulmonary embolism and at autopsy the cause of the neurological deficit turned out to be vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess due to mucormycosis.
- Subjects :
- Abscess diagnostic imaging
Abscess pathology
Diagnosis, Differential
Epidural Space diagnostic imaging
Epidural Space pathology
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mucormycosis diagnostic imaging
Mucormycosis pathology
Osteomyelitis diagnostic imaging
Osteomyelitis pathology
Osteoporosis diagnostic imaging
Radiography
Spinal Cord Compression diagnostic imaging
Spinal Diseases diagnostic imaging
Spinal Diseases pathology
Spine pathology
Abscess etiology
Mucormycosis complications
Osteomyelitis etiology
Spinal Diseases etiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0303-8467
- Volume :
- 81
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Clinical neurology and neurosurgery
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 223796
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0303-8467(79)80005-0