Differentiating brucella spondylitis from tuberculous spondylitis by the conventional MRI and MR T2 mapping: a prospective study

Abstract Background Brucella spondylitis (BS) and tuberculous spondylitis (TS), caused initially by bacteremia, are the two leading types of granulomatous spinal infections. BS is easy to miss or may be misdiagnosed as TS. Our purpose aims to differentiate BS from TS in conventional MR imaging and M...

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Main Authors: Hui Guo, Siqin Lan, Yuanlin He, Maijudan Tiheiran, Wenya Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-10-01
Series:European Journal of Medical Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-021-00598-4