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Cervical intramedullary spinal cord abscess: A case report
- Source :
- Radiology of Infectious Diseases, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 113-116 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Beijing You’an Hospital, 2017.
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Abstract
- Cervical intramedullary spinal cord abscess is an extremely rare entity. We present a case of a 53-year-old male with a cervical intramedullary spinal cord abscess caused by Streptococcus viridians that presented with 4 days of neck pain and progressive left upper extremity numbness and weakness. The patient was managed with a cervical myelotomy and adjunctive antibiotic treatment.
- Subjects :
- 030222 orthopedics
medicine.medical_specialty
Neck pain
Weakness
business.industry
Rare entity
Intramedullary spinal cord
medicine.disease
Intramedullary abscess
Surgery
lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cervical abscess
medicine
Spinal cord abscess
lcsh:RC109-216
medicine.symptom
Abscess
business
Left upper extremity
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23526211
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Radiology of Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....35d53b2143f58ae276dca450b88cebb9