RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 MR of staphylococcal myelitis of the cervical spinal cord.
JF American Journal of Neuroradiology
JO Am. J. Neuroradiol.
FD American Society of Neuroradiology
SP 455
OP 458
VO 18
IS 3
A1 Friess, H M
A1 Wasenko, J J
YR 1997
UL http://www.ajnr.org/content/18/3/455.abstract
AB A homogeneously enhancing cervical cord lesion and multiple ring-enhancing brain lesions were detected with MR imaging in a 41-year-old woman with a staphylococcal septicemia. The brain and spinal cord lesions diminished in size after antibiotic therapy. Although no biopsy was performed, we believe, on the basis of the clinical outcome, that the spinal cord lesion represented a bacterial myelitis and that the lesion was prevented from developing into an abscess by early antibiotic therapy.