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Brucellosis* ; Diagnosis* ; Humans* ; Meat

Brucella ; Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Endocarditis, Bacterial ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Humans

The incidence of Brucellosis is increasing in Korea. Spondylitis is the most frequent complication, but it is difficult to diagnose because its clinical symptoms are non-specific. It should therefore be included in the differential diagnosis of back pain. We report three rare cases of brucellar spondylitis successfully treated by medical and surgical therapy.
Back Pain ; Brucellosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Incidence ; Korea ; Spondylitis

Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; drug therapy ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Male

Brucellosis is far more frequent in a pasturing area in the northern part of our country and it has many clinical manifestations. It may cause multiple organ damage and its features lack specificity. It is rare in the south, so it is extremely easy to be misdiagnosed or overlooked. The retrospective analysis of a case with Brucellosis misdiagnosed as osteoarthrosis provides a guide for clinical doctors to understand Brucellosis, so that early diagnosis would be accessible, and prognosis could be improved.
Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; Diagnostic Errors ; Humans ; Osteoarthritis ; Retrospective Studies

Brucella ; Brucellosis/diagnosis* ; Chromatography, Affinity ; Gold Colloid ; Humans

Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; drug therapy ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Female ; Humans ; Male

OBJECTIVETo study characteristic presentations of Brucellar spondylitis on MRI in order to improve the diagnostic level.

METHODSFrom October 2009 to December 2010,15 patients with Brucellar spondylitis were evaluated by MRI. They included 11 males and 4 females ranging in age from 31 to 64 (mean 49) years. The major clinical manifestations were different degrees of fatigue,fever and low back pain. All patients underwent MRI and treated with antibiotic drugs.

RESULTSBrucellar spondylitis was mostly localized at the lumbar spine with obvious bony hyperostosis in the vertebral periphery. Most foci were in the edge, anterior and middle parts of the vertebral body, with low signals on T1WI and mixed low signals on T2WI, and high signals on T2 fat suppression, mostly without significant changes in intervertebral space. Paraspinal abscess was observed in 5 cases. Thirteen cases involved the lumbar vertebrae, 1 case involved the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, and 1 case involved the lumbar and sacral vertebrae. Two vertebrae were affected in 14 cases, and 3 vertebrae were affected in 1 case.

CONCLUSIONMRI can provide imaging clues for diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Brucellar spondylitis, and has a high clinical value.

Adult ; Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; methods ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Spondylitis ; diagnosis

Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Malta ; Middle Aged ; Spondylitis ; diagnosis ; therapy

Adult ; Aged ; Brucellosis ; diagnosis ; therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Diseases ; diagnosis ; microbiology ; therapy