作者
Huiliang Yang, Akash A Shah, Sandra B Nelson, Joseph H Schwab
发表日期
2019/3/1
期刊
The Spine Journal
卷号
19
期号
3
页码范围
516-522
出版商
Elsevier
简介
BACKGROUND CONTEXT
Fungal spinal epidural abscess (FSEA) is a rare entity with high morbidity and mortality. Reports describing the clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of FSEA are scarce in the literature.
PURPOSE
This study aimed to describe the clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of FSEA.
STUDY DESIGN
This study is designed as a retrospective clinical case series.
PATIENT SAMPLE
A continuous series of patients with the diagnosis of FSEA who presented at our institution from 1993 to 2016.
METHODS
We reviewed the electronic medical records of patients with SEA who were treated within our hospital system from 1993 to 2016. We only included SEA cases that were due to fungi. We also reviewed FSEA cases in the English language literature from 1952 to 2017 to analyze the features of FSEA.
RESULTS
From a database of 1,053 SEA patients, we identified 9 patients …
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