A 60-Year-Old Man with Gingivitis and Poorly Controlled Diabetes Developing Low Back Pain 1 Week Following Recovery from COVID-19 Diagnosed with Spinal Abscess Due to Streptococcus oralis

Eric Chun-Pu Chu; Robert J. Trager; Alan Te Chang Chen; John Sing Fai Shum

doi:10.12659/AJCR.937517

06 October 2022 : Case report Hong Kong

A 60-Year-Old Man with Gingivitis and Poorly Controlled Diabetes Developing Low Back Pain 1 Week Following Recovery from COVID-19 Diagnosed with Spinal Abscess Due to Streptococcus oralis

Challenging differential diagnosis, Rare disease

Eric Chun-Pu Chu

^1ABCDE, Robert J. Trager

^2CDEF*, Alan Te Chang Chen^1ABCDE, John Sing Fai Shum^3BCDE

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.937517

Am J Case Rep 2022; 23:e937517

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Figure 5. Lumbar magnetic resonance imaging suggestive of epidural abscess. The sagittal short tau inversion recovery (STIR) image (A) and axial T2-weighted image at the level of L5 (B) show an abnormal ventral epidural collection extending from L5 to S1 which is STIR hyperintense and T2 intermediate signal intensity (arrowheads).

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A 60-Year-Old Man with Gingivitis and Poorly Controlled Diabetes Developing Low Back Pain 1 Week Following Recovery from COVID-19 Diagnosed with Spinal Abscess Due to Streptococcus oralis

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