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Spinal epidural empyema extending from a pleural empyema: case description and anatomical overview
- Source :
- BMJ Case Reports. :bcr-2017
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2017.
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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.
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1757790X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMJ Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....81b6c483573b78c68a0adf7448eb6f4b