Ces radiol. 2024, 78(3):170-175 | DOI: 10.55095/CesRadiol2024/024

SpondylodiscitisReview article

Jiří Neubauer¹, Eva Korčáková²

¹ Klinika radiologie a nukleární medicíny LF MU a FN, Brno

² Klinika zobrazovacích metod LF UK a FN, Plzeň

The incidence of inflammatory disease of the vertebrae and intervertebraldiscs continues to rise. They often become an unpleasant complication of otherdiseases. It is a combination of inflammation of the vertebral body, i.e.osteomyelitis, and the intervertebral disc, i.e. discitis (1). Improving theavailability of MRI scans may have an effect on the increased number ofdiagnosed spondylodiscitis (2). Despite the fact that the disease has typicalclinical and laboratory signs, its diagnosis can be difficult. A decrease ininflammatory factors after empirically administered antibiotic treatment doesnot explicitly confirm this diagnosis. MRI is a method that morphologicallyreliably confirms the diagnosis, and therefore such an examination should beperformed within 24 hours.

Keywords: spine, inflammation of the bone marrow, MRI, spondylodiscitis

Published: September 1, 2024  Show citation