74 cases of epidemiological survey and misdiagnosis analysis of brucellosis spondylitis / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To improve the understanding of brucellar spondylitis (BS) and to further improve the diagnosis and treatment ability of BS patients.Methods:The epidemiological and clinical data of 74 cases of BS misdiagnosed in Department of Orthopedics, Zhangye People's Hospital Affiliated to Hexi University from January 2014 to December 2019 were analyzed.Results:The average age of BS onset was 34-71 (54.1±4.5)years old. The incidence rate of female was higher than that of male. The morbility of rural individual farmers were higher than that of herdsmen. These patients were infected mainly through browsing and breeding beasts. It was very common that two adjacent lumbars vertebrae were invaded. It took about mean (10.1±2.2)months to diagnosis and (7.1±1.9)times to visits doctors. All patients were misdiagnosed as lumbar disc herniation, spinal tuberculosis and so on.Conclusions:There are characteristic features in clinical epidemiology of BS.It tends to be misdiagnosed as spinal tuberculosis and lumbar disc herniation in early clinical stage. It can be diagnosed as early as possible according to its epidemiology, clinical symptoms and imaging examination.