ALLMedicine™ Diskitis Center

Dec 9th, 2019 - In this report, we describe an extremely rare case of a giant pseudoaneurysm of the internal iliac artery causing marked destructive changes at a disk space and mimicking diskitis-osteomyelitis. Only 2 other cases of pseudoaneurysms extending into...

Nov 20th, 2018 - Background Diskitis is an inflammation of the vertebral disk space often related to infection. Infection of the disk space must be considered with vertebral osteomyelitis; these conditions are almost always present together, and they share much of...

Nov 20th, 2018 - Background Diskitis is an inflammation of the vertebral disk space often related to infection. Infection of the disk space must be considered with vertebral osteomyelitis; these conditions are almost always present together, and they share much of...

May 11th, 2017 - Sacroiliac joint injections are frequently performed procedures in the management of acute and chronic low-back pain, including patients with various immunocompromised states. Infectious complications following these procedures along with other sp...

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Dec 9th, 2019 - In this report, we describe an extremely rare case of a giant pseudoaneurysm of the internal iliac artery causing marked destructive changes at a disk space and mimicking diskitis-osteomyelitis. Only 2 other cases of pseudoaneurysms extending into...

Nov 20th, 2018 - Background Diskitis is an inflammation of the vertebral disk space often related to infection. Infection of the disk space must be considered with vertebral osteomyelitis; these conditions are almost always present together, and they share much of...

Nov 20th, 2018 - Background Diskitis is an inflammation of the vertebral disk space often related to infection. Infection of the disk space must be considered with vertebral osteomyelitis; these conditions are almost always present together, and they share much of...

May 11th, 2017 - Sacroiliac joint injections are frequently performed procedures in the management of acute and chronic low-back pain, including patients with various immunocompromised states. Infectious complications following these procedures along with other sp...

Mar 31st, 2017 - Figure 1. Figure 2.

Mar 31st, 2017 - Figure 1. Figure 2.

Dec 21st, 2011 - ANSWER The radiograph demonstrates generalized degenerative changes. Of note are fairly significant destructive changes in the endplate at the L3-4 level.

Dec 17th, 2009 - Introduction Low back pain attributed to spinal disk degeneration has been routinely diagnosed via diskography. Although its validity has been debated, diskography represents a diagnostic tool to help differentiate pain that is diskogenic in natur...

Jul 26th, 2004 - Discussion In children, isolated diskitis typically occurs in patients less than 3 years old, however, vertebral osteomyelitis usually occurs in patient's older than 8 years. Infection is usually caused by Staphylococcus or Streptococcus organisms...

Jul 26th, 2004 - Summary 11 year old with right sided back and lower extremity pain. (Enlarge Image) (Enlarge Image) (Enlarge Image) (Enlarge Image) (Enlarge Image) Each of the following may be seen in diskitis/vertebral osteomyelitis except: Paraspinous abscess E...