Study design: Case report describing spontaneous Corynebacterium diptheria discitis in a patient with chronic renal failure. Objectives: To describe this very rare form of discitis and the results of ...

To present a patient with spinal brucellosis, which was initially presented with sciatica and misdiagnosed as a lumbar disc herniation owing to nonspecific neurological and radiological findings. The ...

Nearly all the patients with low back pain referred by their general practitioner for a lumbar magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) had abnormal findings on the imaging, with seven in 10 showing disc ...

, and , Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga. Contraindications. Contraindications to lumbar chymopapain chemonucleolysis include allergy to papain or papaya, cauda equina syndrome, disc ...