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Usefulness of Percutaneous Drainage in Determining the Causative Microorganism in Patients with Spondylodiscitis: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.

Shoichi IkenagaDaisuke YunaiyamaMika YasutomiItaru NakamuraMitsuru OkuboToru SaguchiMotoki NakaiKazuhiro Saito
Published in: Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology (2023)
CT-guided percutaneous drainage showed a high positive rate of microorganism detection in patients with spondylodiscitis regardless of antibiotic administration prior to the procedure. CT-guided percutaneous drainage can be a solution for the detection of the causative microorganism in spondylodiscitis patients who received antibiotics before obtaining any culture.
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