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Article: Spinal abscesses: more than a pain in the back.
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- Trial
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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The clients' pain started out as a backache--like none they had ever experienced. Fever accompanied the pain, and the clients didn't want to move so much as an inch. Their fingers or feet felt weak, then tingly. The tingly feeling, they now know, was a sign of paralysis, which would change their lives forever.
These are not ordinary cases of quadriplegia--the kind that result from being thrown from a horse or injured in a car crash. These result from spinal epidural abscesses.
These abscesses are rare and require emergency treatment, said John Kostuik, an orthopedic surgery professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
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