Febbraio 2016 - Volume XXXV - numero 2
Percorsi clinici
1Università degli Studi di Trieste; 2IRCCS Materno-Infantile “Burlo Garofolo”, Trieste
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Key words: Spondylodiscitis, Vertebral infection, Spinal MRI, Kingella kingae
Spondylodiscitis is an infectious disease that involves two contiguous vertebrae and the interposed disc; it affects children in the first years of life when the local vascularization is characterized by the persistence of connecting vessels. It is a rarity and the fact that it can present in different ways often leads to a severe diagnostic delay. Starting from four clinical cases of spondylodiscitis, the paper aims at underlining several peculiarities of the disease in order to convey some take-home messages to diagnose it and treat it correctly.
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