J Korean Neurosurg Soc.  1981 Sep;10(2):519-526.

Aseptic Spondylitis Following Lumbar Disk Surgery

• Lim HY
• Park CK

Abstract

We must once consider spondylitis, if the patient complains of severe back pain and back muscle spasm following a more or less improvement after disk surgery. The etiology of these postoperative complications is not well understood in suspected cases of spondylitis, but the most likely causes reveals to be low grade infection, aseptic necrosis and pyogenic infection etc. Conservative treatment with complete bed rest and antibiotics led to satisfactory results in major cases, but there is no improvement in spite of application strong antibiotics and muscle relaxant in some cases. In later cases, we got the good results with immediate pain relieve and reducing hospital day by anterior interbody fusion. So we report 4 cases of aseptic spondylitis with review of literature.

MeSH Terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Back Muscles
Back Pain
Bed Rest
Humans
Necrosis
Postoperative Complications
Spasm
Spondylitis*
Anti-Bacterial Agents