title: High cervical spine spondylodiscitis management and literature review.
abstract: Spondylodiscitis affecting the cervical spine is the most unusual type. Disease progression can be dramatic, even causing quadriplegia and death. We present an unusual case that progressed with osteolytic lesions between C2 and C3, causing cord compression and epidural abscess. The patient was treated surgically by a double approach and improved without neurological deficits and with better inflammatory markers. We reviewed the current literature on the subject.
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics and Traumatology Service, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: André Luis
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Sebben
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics and Traumatology Service, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Xavier Soler
authors.initials: XS
authors.lastname: Graells
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics and Traumatology Service, Hospital do Trabalhador, UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcel Luiz
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Benato
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics and Traumatology Service, Hospital do Trabalhador, UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pedro Grein Del
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Santoro
authors.affiliation: Orthopedics and Traumatology Service, Hospital do Trabalhador, UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Álynson Larocca
authors.initials: ÁL
authors.lastname: Kulcheski
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000382:microbiology; D015299:Discitis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology; D020802:Epidural Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology; D013166:Spondylitis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000382:microbiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed