Discussion Most cases of infectious spondylitis are due to Staphylococcus aureus.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis accounts for a small proportion of cases, and fungal agents are …

MR images of 14 patients with pyogenic and three patients with tuberculous infectious
spondylitis were studied to develop criteria for diagnosis. T1-weighted scans, 800/20 …

A retrospective evaluation of MRI was carried out in 22 patients with spondylodiskitis. Low
signal intensity on T1-weighted images and high or low signal intensity on T2-weighted …

Retrospective evaluation was made of four patients with tuberculous spondylitis who had
been studied by MR with T1-and T2-weighted images in the sagittal plane and spin-density …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of 24 patients with clinically proven infectious
spondylitis were retrospectively evaluated. Evaluation was made of abnormal signal and …

Objective: The purpose of this study is to analyze the patterns of intervertebral disc
enhancement seen in infectious spondylitis, differentiate between two groups [tuberculous …

Infectious spondylitis is a common disease and increasing in incidence, which may be a
primary spinal infection or secondary to a systemic infection. Because many spinal infections …

Four patients with paravertebral extension of advanced tuberculous intervertebral disk-
space infection were studied by CT and MRI. In one patient gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA) …

The purpose of this study was to reevaluate previously reported MR imaging findings for
vertebral osteomyelitis that include decreased signal intensity in the disk and adjacent …

Inhalation is the usual mode of infection, and hematogenous spread to the central nervous
system (CNS) results in diffuse subacute meningitis. The dural and leptomeningeal …