Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a serious infection of the central nervous system that typically presents with midline back pain, fever and neurological deficits. We report a rare case of an ...

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 ...

Investigating cases of neurological loss from spinal epidural abscesses in patients who were previously discharged from care centers without diagnostic testing Back pain, fever, and neurological ...

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 ...

A spinal epidural abscess rarely announces itself as a medical emergency. For many patients, it begins quietly with back pain that feels routine, a fever that seems manageable, or weakness that is ...

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 ...