title: [Disk hypodensity and disk herniation].
abstract: The authors report the case of a patient with a herniated lumbar disk and bacterial meningitis. CT scan showed central disk hypodensity at the hernia level, whilst full cytological and bacteriological study of the disk following surgery revealed no evidence of spondylodiscitis. The problem was thus that of consequences of "degenerative" events related to the herniation. Central or peripheral disk hypodensity must in no case be considered as specific of discitis when there is a concomitant disk herniation.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Louis-Mourier, Service de Radiologie, Colombes.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Adamsbaum
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rolland
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: de Broucker
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dichy
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levesque
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008297:Male; D008581:Meningitis / Q000150:complications; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Hypodensité discale et hernie discale.