A Orlando Ortiz, Alex Levitt, Lubdha M Shah, Matthew S Parsons, Vikas Agarwal, Keith Baldwin, Shamik Bhattacharyya, Daniel J Boulter, Judah Burns, Kathleen R Fink, Christopher H Hunt, Troy A Hutchins, Lillian S Kao, Majid A Khan, Bruce M Lo, Toshio Moritani, Charles Reitman, Michael D Repplinger, Vinil N Shah, Simranjit Singh, Vincent M Timpone, Amanda S Corey
Spine infection is both a clinical and diagnostic imaging challenge due to its relatively indolent and nonspecific clinical presentation. The diagnosis of spine infection is based upon a combination of clinical suspicion, imaging evaluation and, when possible, microbiologic confirmation performed from blood cultures or image-guided percutaneous or open spine biopsy. With respect to the imaging evaluation of suspected spine infection, MRI without and with contrast of the affected spine segment is the initial diagnostic test of choice...
November 2021: Journal of the American College of Radiology: JACR