Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a rare condition; consequently, the clinical significance of early diagnosis often is overlooked. The challenge with SEA is not its treatment, but achieving early ...

Spinal infections are rare but can be deadly, so you need to get a proper diagnosis as soon as possible if you have spinal pain. Read on to learn more about what spinal infections are, the types of ...

A 47 year-old man developed mid-back pain followed by numbness and weakness of both legs over the next two weeks, associated with urinary incontinence. He had been treated for Staphylococcus aureus ...

When Maranda Nyborg started feeling under the weather, she didn't think anything of it. It was October, and she usually caught something as the seasons changed. Nyborg, a Division I student athlete at ...

Exploring cases of neurological loss from SEA in patients who were discharged from urgent care and ER departments without diagnostic testing and delays Patients with epidural spinal abscess present to ...

When Maranda Nyborg started feeling under the weather, she didn't think anything of it. It was October, and she usually caught something as the seasons changed. Nyborg, a Division I student athlete at ...

An abscess occurs when an infection causes a pocket of pus to develop. Abscesses can develop on the skin, in the mouth, or inside the body. Bacterial infections typically cause abscesses. Pus develops ...

Ravi, a software engineer in the UK, experienced escalating back pain that led to paralysis due to a delayed diagnosis of spinal tuberculosis. Critical CT scans were postponed, allowing the infection ...

The spinal epidural space is the area between the spinal cord and the vertebral body. According to Martin and Yuan (1996), the spinal epidural space is a metameric segmented structure, not a uniform ...