Background Generally, a sufficient duration of relevant antibiotics based on an appropriate
culture combined with proper surgical treatment guarantees a favorable clinical outcome in …

Study Design: Retrospective study. Objective: To study the clinical outcomes of patients
suffering from pyogenic spinal infections (PSI), by comparing the outcomes of patients with …

Introduction: Management of pyogenic spinal infections (PSI) after the development of
neurological deficit has not been specifically addressed in the literature. We aimed to …

Study Design. Retrospective. Objective. To assess long-term adverse functional outcome
following pyogenic spinal infection using standardized outcome measures, Oswestry …

Patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (PVO) often develop concurrent infections,
and a significant number of these patients show rapid deterioration in their medical …

Purpose Cervical spine pyogenic infections are unusual compared to other vertebral
segments, but they can be associated to worse clinical outcomes. We compared all patients …

Background and purpose: Pyogenic spinal infection (PSI) has recently been on the rise due
to aging and increasing degenerative spinal disease related procedures. PSI requires long …

Study Design. A retrospective study of a consecutive series of all patients with pyogenic
spinal infections treated at a single institution over a 10-year period. Objective. To …

Object Pyogenic vertebral infections are rare. In most papers investigators have focused on
risk factors, clinical characteristics, and diagnostic findings, and discussed different …

Purpose Pola et al. described a clinical-radiological classification of pyogenic spinal
infections (PSI) based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features including vertebral …