Clinical and Medical Case Reports

From a Suspicion of Meningitis to the Diagnosis of Cervical Spondylodiscitis: A Case Report

Abstract

Moussa Houssein Amir* and Decamps Frederic

Cervical spondylodiscitis or vertebral osteomyelitis is a rare condition, the incidence of which is probably often underestimated due to a lack of knowledge on the part of the medical community. The clinical presentation (neck pain and fever) often remains nonspecific. In the case, the patient was hospitalised under suspicion for bacterial meningitis. Subsequently, the first diagnosis was reconsidered given the negative results of the CSF cultures, the persistence of neck pain and the context of several surgical cures of a recurrent ENT neoplasia. A cervical spondylodiscitis was then suggested and confirmed by cervical CT-scan and brain MRI.