TY - JOUR
T1 - Percutaneous diskectomy for disk space infections.
AU - Watters, III, William C.
AU - Khalil, M. A.
PY - 1994/1/1
Y1 - 1994/1/1
N2 - To diagnose and treat intervertebral disk space infection, we used percutaneous diskectomy in four patients to harvest a large amount of disk material and to decompress and lavage the infected disk space with a broad spectrum antibiotic solution. This treatment regimen rapidly diminished pain and shortened the acute clinical course of the process. The long-term course in this small number of patients, however, appears not to have been altered.
AB - To diagnose and treat intervertebral disk space infection, we used percutaneous diskectomy in four patients to harvest a large amount of disk material and to decompress and lavage the infected disk space with a broad spectrum antibiotic solution. This treatment regimen rapidly diminished pain and shortened the acute clinical course of the process. The long-term course in this small number of patients, however, appears not to have been altered.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8746380
AN - SCOPUS:0028679758
VL - 3
SP - 283
EP - 289
JO - Journal of the Southern Orthopaedic Association
JF - Journal of the Southern Orthopaedic Association
SN - 1059-1052
IS - 4
ER -