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Brucella spondylodiscitis
Med Clin (Barc). 2017;149(5):234
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Brucella spondylodiscitis夽 Espondilodiscitis por Brucella Recep Sade, Gökhan Polat ∗ , Hayri Ogul, Mecit Kantarci Department of Radiology, Medical Faculty, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Fig. 1.
A 15 year-old male presented to the pediatric clinic with complaints of lumbar pain, leg weakness, high fever, night sweats and weight loss. There was no history of trauma and surgery. The spinal and sacroiliac magnetic resonance (MR) imagings were performed. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed lumbar 4/5 vertebrae heterogeneous hypointense on T1 weighted (T1W), and heterogeneously enhanced after contrast administration (Fig. 1). Laboratory findings showed increased Brucella IgG and IgM. According to radiological and laboratory findings, the lesions were evaluated primarily brucella spondylodiscitis. Brucella is still a world health problem in endemic regions. MR imaging is a noninvasive and highly sensitive imaging technique which should be 1st choice of imaging in the early diagnosis of brucella spondylodiscitis.
夽 Please cite this article as: Sade R, Polat G, Ogul H, Kantarci M. Espondilodiscitis por Brucella. Med Clin (Barc). 2017;149:234. ∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (G. Polat). ˜ S.L.U. All rights reserved. 2387-0206/© 2017 Elsevier Espana,
www.elsevier.es/medicinaclinica
Image in medicine
Brucella spondylodiscitis夽 Espondilodiscitis por Brucella Recep Sade, Gökhan Polat ∗ , Hayri Ogul, Mecit Kantarci Department of Radiology, Medical Faculty, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Fig. 1.
A 15 year-old male presented to the pediatric clinic with complaints of lumbar pain, leg weakness, high fever, night sweats and weight loss. There was no history of trauma and surgery. The spinal and sacroiliac magnetic resonance (MR) imagings were performed. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed lumbar 4/5 vertebrae heterogeneous hypointense on T1 weighted (T1W), and heterogeneously enhanced after contrast administration (Fig. 1). Laboratory findings showed increased Brucella IgG and IgM. According to radiological and laboratory findings, the lesions were evaluated primarily brucella spondylodiscitis. Brucella is still a world health problem in endemic regions. MR imaging is a noninvasive and highly sensitive imaging technique which should be 1st choice of imaging in the early diagnosis of brucella spondylodiscitis.
夽 Please cite this article as: Sade R, Polat G, Ogul H, Kantarci M. Espondilodiscitis por Brucella. Med Clin (Barc). 2017;149:234. ∗ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (G. Polat). ˜ S.L.U. All rights reserved. 2387-0206/© 2017 Elsevier Espana,