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Staphylococcal Discitis L3-L4:Early Diagnosis And Treatment With Favorable Result- A Casereport, Chui-Lee Wong, Tzung-Chien Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

A 60 year-old male patient who presented with lumbago, fever, local tenderness over lumbar spine and associated with paravertebral muscle spasm, was prescribed antibiotic therapy 12 days after the onset of initial symptom under the impression of septic lumbar discitis, which was then verified by MRI and microbiology within one week after admission. Early diagnosis and adequate antibiotic therapy gained a favorable result, although the patient needed anterior inlerbody fusion for symptomatic retrolisthesis of L3 on L4 at the sixth week after admission.