Table 1 Summary of patients with acute pyothorax due to thoracic pyogenic spondylitis or intervertebral discitis
Case | References | Age (years) | Sex | Pathogen | Th level | Pyothorax side | Procedures |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lang [6] | UNK | UNK | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | UNK | UNK | UNK |
2 | Bloom et al. [1] | 49 | M | Staphylococcus aureus | 10 | Right | Evacuate paraspinal abscess |
3 | Bloom et al. [1] | 63 | M | Staphylococcus aureus | 7–8 | Left | Evacuate necrotic bone |
4 | Hendrix et al. [9] | 57 | M | Aspergillus fumigatus | 1–5 | UNK | Thoracic drainage Decompressive laminectomy from Th1-5 |
5 | Sullivan et al. [10] | 64 | M | Staphylococcus aureus | 7 | Bilateral | Costotransversectomy and vertebral bone biopsy Thoracentesis |
6 | Shimada et al. [12] | 75 | F | Salmonella | 10–11 | Bilateral | None |
7 | Bass et al. [5] | 74 | F | Proteus mirabilis | 9–11 | Right | Thoracic drainage, Laminectomy from Th9-11 |
8 | Bass et al. [5] | 62 | M | Streptococcus agalactiae | 6–7 | Right | Thoracic drainage, thoracotomy, and decortication |
9 | Prasad et al. [7] | 67 | M | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 12 | Left | Thoracic drainage |
10 | Zheng et al. [13] | 42 | M | Salmonella | 12 | UNK | CT-guided psoas muscle abscess drainage |
11 | Taniguchi et al. [14] | 59 | F | Staphylococcus Aureus | 11–12 | Bilateral | Thoracic drainage Anterior fixation with autogenous bone (ilium) |
12 | Ruzicić et al. [8] | UNK | UNK | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | 10–11 | UNK | Decortication |
13 | Nakamura et al. [2] | 74 | M | Streptococcus gordonii | 12 | Right | Thoracoscopic curettage |
14 | Kadota et al. [11] | 63 | F | Mycobacterium abscessus | UNK | Right | Thoracoscopic curettage |
15 | Tatara et al. [3] | 60 | F | Streptococcus Anginosus Group | 8–9 | Bilateral | Curettage through open thoracotomy Discectomy and non-instrumented fixation |
16 | Bonnesen et al. [4] | 77 | F | Fusobacterium nucleatum | 10–11 | Left | Thoracic drainage |
17 | Altunçekiç et al. [15] | 17 | F | Brucella | 11–12 | Bilateral | Thoracic drainage |
18 | Current case | 60 | F | MRSA | 8 | Right | Curettage through open thoracotomy Thoracic vertebral debridement Anterior fixation with autogenous bone (rib) |