title: Infectious spondylodiscitis: magnetic resonance imaging in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We retrospectively reviewed 21 infections of the spine to correlate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with etiology of spondylodiscitis according to HIV status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  MRI allowed the differentiation between tuberculous and pyogenic spondylodiscitis in the chronic stage. Typical findings were not observed in HIV+ as compared with HIV- patients, either concerning etiology or characteristic features of the spondylodiscitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, National Institute for Infectious Disease L. Spallanzani, Via Portuense 292, 00149, Rome, Italy. epidemiol@spallanzani.roma.it
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schininà
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Rizzi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rovighi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de Carli
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bibbolino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015299:Discitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D018023:HIV Seronegativity; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies