VERTEBRANIN GRANULOMATOZ ENFEKSİYONLARI
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VERTEBRANIN GRANULOMATOZ ENFEKSİYONLARI

J Turk Spinal Surg 2006;17(2):33-52
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Abstract

Vertebral osteomyelitis is an infectious dise-ase of the osseous spine that can involve the ad-jacent soft-tissue elements including the interver-tebral disc, the epidural space and and intimate myofacial tissues. The aim of this paper is to study infectious diseases causing granulomato-us reactions as a host immune response to infec-tious agents. There can a considerable number of infectious agents be observed causing granu-lomatous reactions. The most common granulo-matous infection is tuberculosis. Other, rarer bac-terial (Actinomyces, Nocardia, Brucella), fungal, and spirochetic (Treponema) infections produce a similar host granulomatous reaction.

Keywords: spine, granulom, infection, oste-omyelitis. Spondylitis