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 ...

A Portland jury awarded $10 million March 9 to a Vancouver man and his wife after doctors failed to promptly diagnose and treat a spinal infection compressing his spinal cord, and he suffered partial ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found that cervical discitis and epidural abscess should be considered as a differential diagnosis ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — In a retrospective study of patients with spinal epidural abscesses treated in a single hospital health care system during a nearly 20-year period, investigators identified ...

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 ...

Radiological studies are the primary means of diagnosing SEA. Enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the imaging study of choice for SEA diagnosis (Greenberg, 2001). The MRI should be done as ...