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Query: UMLS:C0034186 (
pyelonephritis
)
6,144
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Six cases of late spinal infection following instrumentation are described. In all cases, there was a delay of at least 10 months between surgery and the clinical development of sepsis. In 5 of the 6 cases, a distant focus of infection could be identified. Two patients had active intravenous
drug usage
, two patients were paraplegic with neurogenic bladders, and one patient had an episode of
pyelonephritis
secondary to renal calculi two months prior to presentation. In no instance was there any preceding breakdown of overlying skin. This previously unreported phenomenon is an extremely rare but major complication of spinal surgery.
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PMID:Late infection of spinal instrumentation by hematogenous seeding. 847 11
