Intervertebral disk-space infection: CT changes. Work in progress.
Seven patients who had spinal interspace infections underwent clinical, laboratory, and radiographic examinations, and findings are reported. Lytic fragmentation of adjacent vertebral bodies is a characteristic appearance on CT scans. Sagittal-coronal reformations confirm the end-plate irregularity and establish the diagnosis. Since the changes of diskitis are delayed and often obscured by accompanying degenerative disease on plain radiographs, CT appears to offer a diagnostic modality that shortens the usual delay from onset of symptoms to diagnosis.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007403:Intervertebral Disc / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013166:Spondylitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed