A 69-year-old lady presented with back pain for 5 days associated with spiking temperatures, lower limb weakness and urinary retention. Urgent MRI showed discitis at the disc between cervical vertebra ...

Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) comprises narrowing of the spinal canal with subsequent neural compression, and is frequently associated with symptoms of neurogenic claudication. To establish a diagnosis ...

Background Aortic root abscess formation is amongst the most serious complications of Infective Endocarditis (IE). Over the past two decades, the incidence of IE in Europe has doubled. The presence of ...

The Wilson laboratory is pursuing clinically translatable biomarkers for infection, particularly discitis-osteomyelitis, which may be difficult to diagnose using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic ...

Spinal lesions can cause symptoms like numbness, muscle weakness, and loss of motor skills. Traumatic injuries such as falls and car accidents are common causes of spinal lesions. Spinal infections ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Jichi Medical University, Saitama, Japan 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 3 ...

The Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research Symposium is open to all in the UCSF and scientific communities and features speaker presentations and a scientific poster session highlighting the ...