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discitis

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dis·ci·tis (ds-kts)
n.
Variant of diskitis.

discitis Diskitis, spondylodiskitis Orthopedics Intervertebral disk/disk space inflammation that may lead to disk erosion Etiology Discography, myelography, lumbar puncture, paravertebral injection, obstetric epidural anesthesia, chymopapain chemonucleolysis, often accompanied by infection


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Patients involved in laboratory outbreaks of brucellosis have shown almost the entire range of clinical manifestations of the disease, ranging from the common prolonged febrile syndrome (undulant fever) (14) and a flulike disease (25,27), to focal signs and symptoms, such as hepatitis (17,33), lymphadenopathy (17,25), uveitis (14), breast abscess (28) epididymitis (29), arthritis (17), discitis (29,34), pneumonitis (17), deep vein thrombosis (29), and meningitis (31).
Magnetic resonance imaging (Figure) of the patient's lumbar spine revealed discitis and osteomyelitis at the L3/L4 level, with associated epidural and paraverterbral abscesses.
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