Spinal epidural abscess due to Actinomyces israelii
- 1 February 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 31 (2) , 204
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.31.2.204
Abstract
A 31-year-old man had back pain, weight loss, fever, and paraplegia, with radiographic evidence of a left upper lobe lesion and lytic lesions in ribs and vertebral bodies. Gallium uptake was increased over the spine. At surgery we found a paraspinal abscess due to Actinomyces israelii. The patient responded to surgery and penicillin therapy. This is the first report of a case of actinomycotic spinal epidural abscess necessitating emergency surgery since the advent of penicillin.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Disseminated actinomycosis with spinal cord compressionNeurology, 1979